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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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If you were reasonably well educated, you can probably make pretty good
decisions as to what you should and shouldn’t be eating.
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That’s actually far easier said than done. And increasingly more problematic in
the U.S. than some other countries apparently (esp. Europe, I admit I have no
idea about the food standards in Canada).
Random thoughts:
I just want to know that if I buy corn -- it really is just corn! Not corn
genetically altered to have a few strains of swine DNA or some damned thing.
The BBC reported last week that new GM corn is reducing insect populations near
a test field. That’s not a good thing -- I am reminded of the bird’s that die in
the mineshaft as a warning to the miners to get the hell out!
Because there is no labelling in effect so far, you can’t tell if you are eating
GM products or not. I would tend not to eat them myself.
I think CNN is reporting that cloned animals may soon be available at the
butcher’s counter. Now why raising hogs in the old fashioned way is less
desirable than cloned pigs I guess I may never know...
These GM and cloned products seem to be solutons for non-existent problems. I
don’t think the proscuitto is going to taste any better coming from a cloned
pig.
Lastly, it is not for nothing that nature tries a little bit of everything
(evolution in action). Some things are not robust enough to succeed -- and they
shouldn’t! Now we stupid human beings think we are smart enough to decide based
on some arbitrary market created motives that certain features are better than
others for corn, pig, and tomacco
http://www.kptv.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?qu=tomacco!
The greeks called this kind of insane hubris “hamartia” -- a character flaw or
error that leads to one’s downfall.
I mean, rice and corn -- was there something wrong with these grains before now?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) My jury's still out on GM foodstuffs, though I agree that the GM-status of a product should be clearly indicated. (...) Maybe not, but it will be exactly as good as the proscuitto you ate before! (...) True enought, but the grains that we had (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Richard, Have you ever headed down I-5 around Bakersfield, where they have a LOT of cattle? On a really hot day, just after the cows have turned over a field? Imagine that stench, 100 times stronger, and less natural smelling. Pig farms will (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Food can be scary--all the preprocessed stuff and additives and whatever. Yet people still live. And they're living longer now than 'ever before'. Eh, I eat what I want to eat, and try to take reasonable care of what goes into this (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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