streetwalker wrote:
Angela,
I continue to be perplexed by your responses. They do not address my original post in any way.
It is difficult to read and digest your arguments in the form you present them.
I will attempt to summarize your arguments:
1) You believe we are over-reacting to GMO/GE's.
2) Organic foods are a fallacy, because pollutants and other harmful "things" are inescapable and present everywhere.
I and, likely, many other members would be delighted to debate these points with you if you can present them in a cogent, concise and structured manner. You are always welcome to your opinions, but your arguments need to be presented in an understandable manner.
I must say, that I was offended by your reference to "You people..." and "Don't understand..."
First, as a member of this group, you are part of a family, albeit a family that may have differing opinions.
Second, this is a group of intelligent and educated people. Many of us are highly informed/educated on GMO's/GE, organic practices/issues and the environment in general. We may disagree with you, but please don't assume that we "don't understand."
yep, pretty much if you didn;t know about the Mayo study but want to point fingers. And, why do you think companies like monsanto stay in business? Because people work for these companies because they can't go elsewhere and are making foods using products which cannot be verified. It's all good when it's posted online or in a magazine article, but if you work for a company financed by China, owned by Dupont, supplies widgets that Monsanto needs to do it's work, where is the real problem? And it's also good to buy local, but understand that GMO pollen and pollinators do not understand fences and property boundaries and little farmers might not even realize that the water they use can contain someone's prescription, gasoline, or insect spray.
Think about it the next time you see families having fun on the nation's reservoirs in their house and ski boats and that they almost always use water color or coliform counts to determine how much chlorine to add to the water before it's sent out into municipal water systems and may send it off for lab analysis if strange colors show up. As it relates to your post is that it's not only overseas that has issues you should be attendant to. It's right here in your own city or county maybe.