Ok, I'm gonna get technical here. When you say GMO, what you are probably referring to is laboratory modified food.
GMO is a part of most every food you eat. You think carrots were always orange? Corn today is NOT the corn they had 100 years ago.
Talk to real farmers and you will find almost ALL food is GMO, but was done ... well... naturally, I guess, through long term selective breeding and cross breeding programs, over years, decades, even centuries.
The "GMO" most people are referring to is the lab created junk, like what McD's does, using chemicals in their "meat" or "fries" to replicate the desired, consistent flavors. And the introduction of preservatives that can make ice cream stay looking like ice cream, even after it sat out for a month on the counter without molding (true story).
Farmers laugh pretty hard when people claim they eat only organics with non-GMO pedigree. It's ALL GMO!
Source: multiple generational farmers, doing it for 40+ years each.
Creating natural plant hybrids through selective breeding is one thing. Adding fish DNA to a tomato plant to create GMO tomatoes is another. A tomato plant is never going to naturally evolve fish DNA in a million years no matter how careful you are with selective breeding. This is the type of frankenfood that people avoid.
Pretty much what I was going to retort. Add in the "new and improved" GMO grains especially; wheat, corn, oats, etc, have pesticides IN the plant: http://npic.orst.edu/reg/pip.html
In other words, the plant now produces pesticides to "stave off harmful insects". So think about that a minute: If it's no longer sprayed, but produced BY the plant, there's no chance of washing it off and, thus, Humans also injest the pesticide because its the plant itself.
Now trace that back. When did outbreaks of crazy allergies happen? Celiac disease (extremely rare or unheard of pre-1990)?
Ok, I'm gonna get technical here. When you say GMO, what you are probably referring to is laboratory modified food.
GMO is a part of most every food you eat. You think carrots were always orange? Corn today is NOT the corn they had 100 years ago.
Talk to real farmers and you will find almost ALL food is GMO, but was done ... well... naturally, I guess, through long term selective breeding and cross breeding programs, over years, decades, even centuries.
The "GMO" most people are referring to is the lab created junk, like what McD's does, using chemicals in their "meat" or "fries" to replicate the desired, consistent flavors. And the introduction of preservatives that can make ice cream stay looking like ice cream, even after it sat out for a month on the counter without molding (true story).
Farmers laugh pretty hard when people claim they eat only organics with non-GMO pedigree. It's ALL GMO!
Source: multiple generational farmers, doing it for 40+ years each.
Creating natural plant hybrids through selective breeding is one thing. Adding fish DNA to a tomato plant to create GMO tomatoes is another. A tomato plant is never going to naturally evolve fish DNA in a million years no matter how careful you are with selective breeding. This is the type of frankenfood that people avoid.
Pretty much what I was going to retort. Add in the "new and improved" GMO grains especially; wheat, corn, oats, etc, have pesticides IN the plant: http://npic.orst.edu/reg/pip.html
In other words, the plant now produces pesticides to "stave off harmful insects". So think about that a minute: If it's no longer sprayed, but produced BY the plant, there's no chance of washing it off and, thus, Humans also injest the pesticide because its the plant itself.
Now trace that back. When did outbreaks of crazy allergies happen? Celiac disease (extremely rare or unheard of pre-1990)?
Consider the ingredients in their vaccines: peanut oil, egg, hydrolyzed wheat, aluminum, formaldehyde......lots more.
You're referring to hybridization. GMO is a total insult to creation.