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[leia131]

Do you know how much genetically modified food you eat? No. You don't. Because there is no law in the United States requiring genetically modified foods to be labelled.

And that should terrify all of you. There's no way to control genetic modifications in plants from spreading. And no one really knows for sure what eating these foods might do to us in generations to come. Research that refutes research done by the big business that are modifing the stuff gets shut down or goes unpublished.

It's hard to explain to a general audience who doesn't know about recombinant DNA that putting genes into food means they're going to end up in people, and I don't have the strength to type it all out. But it's terrifying, and I don't want to be eating anything thats been messed with without knowing that I'm eating it.

We watched this movie about all this today, and all I could think of was the line in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum says "Your scientists were so busy worrying about whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should." And we all know how well genetic engineering worked out in that case. How they could totally totally control everything. NOT.

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[kelliann1388.livejournal.com]

does this mean megan is going organic?

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Possibly. It's hard to tell what's good, bad, and indifferent because they don't have to fucking label anything, which really annoys me.

[whatsername99.livejournal.com]

You know what else is terrifying?

China.

There are ingredients in our foods from China that also have no screening process or labelling standards. That's how babies died from bad formula and all of a sudden there are roofies in toys.

I support your cause to have food labelled, but for the Love of god, please don't go organic. It's a scheme. You'll end up spending $8 on bananas that were packaged in California and shipped over here, which, is worse than buying non-organic local food that doesn't cost as much money. Besides, even though there are some standards for organic, they aren't universal because in some places you can claim something that is only 50% Organic as "Organic" and nobody's the wiser.

Basically the FDA just needs to get off of their asses and people need to stop being greedy guaton culiaos.

<3

[leia131.livejournal.com]

I know, they talked more about buying local than buying organic. Cause organic stuff that's mass marked is just as bad.

Besides, you can grow something organically from a genetically modified seed.

[whatsername99.livejournal.com]

Thank god, someone who agrees with me that organic isn't the greatest thing on the planet.

Is this gonna be your new cause? Right up there with the (adorable and fluffy) polar godless killing machines bears?

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Sure. I can handle one more cause I think.

[whatsername99.livejournal.com]

Well I can take over Al Gore if you want me to take some of the weight of global warming off of your hands. Oh shit, I accidentally made a fat joke. I'M SORRY AL, I LOVE YOU!!11!!!!

[spazenport.livejournal.com]

I work at a food co-op, i hear these rants, read these rants, and breathe these rants all day...

all i can say is, yeah, its genetically modified...but damn...its tasty.


it's easily countered...but simply put...i cannot be swayed. And if it kills me...or makes my children hardcore mutants hellbent on world domination...


well, come on...everyone expected that anyways.

[leia131.livejournal.com]

Oh Matt. :)

It just scared the crap out of me, cause I know how much a single gene can fuck you up. It was really a terrifying movie.