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Are GMO food safe?

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  • seanD
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    Originally posted by pancreasman View Post
    I don't see the need to be uncivil. What have I ever done to you? You say there are scientific studies that show consumption of GMO's is hazardous. I'd just like to see one. 'Look it up yourself' is not really a great debate tactic.. Secondly you have said you are not a scientist so I wonder how you evaluate scientific information. How did you arrive at your conclusion about GMO foods?

    Here's an example of a citation, not peer reviewed but still interesting.
    I'm not being uncivil (okay blow it out your rear was a bit harsh), nor do I have anything personal against you; it's just the nature of the forum, stop whining about it all the time. Since when do we have to be a scientist to express opinions and views about scientific research? Is that some sort of exceptional rule only I must follow? And I never gave a conclusion one way or the other, other than it isn't as cut and dry as PM claimed it was (why do I have to keep repeating that?).

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  • pancreasman
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    Originally posted by seanD View Post
    Nah, rear has a better ring to it, especially in your case. What's the point of offering peer reviewed studies here when you can google the studies at your heart's content? There are peer reviewed studies on both sides, as I said. It isn't a cut and dry issue as PM made it out to be.
    I don't see the need to be uncivil. What have I ever done to you? You say there are scientific studies that show consumption of GMO's is hazardous. I'd just like to see one. 'Look it up yourself' is not really a great debate tactic.. Secondly you have said you are not a scientist so I wonder how you evaluate scientific information. How did you arrive at your conclusion about GMO foods?

    Here's an example of a citation, not peer reviewed but still interesting.

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  • seanD
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    Originally posted by pancreasman View Post
    Great, then you'll have no problem citing some scientific evidence that the consumption of GMO foods is hazardous to health.

    And I think you mean 'blow it out your ear'!
    Nah, rear has a better ring to it, especially in your case. What's the point of offering peer reviewed studies here when you can google the studies at your heart's content? There are peer reviewed studies on both sides, as I said. It isn't a cut and dry issue as PM made it out to be.

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  • pancreasman
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    Originally posted by seanD View Post
    Yep, that's what PM did; offer a cogent argument backed by peer review data. Blow it our your rear. It's a very controversial issue with many sides of the argument and many sides with peer review studies saying different things. Only in this case, I find the side saying GMO is unhealthy a bit more legitimate than say a side being funded by Monsanto who has more to lose.
    Great, then you'll have no problem citing some scientific evidence that the consumption of GMO foods is hazardous to health.

    And I think you mean 'blow it out your ear'!

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  • CMD
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    I never understood most GMO debates. It's always "GMOs are bad!" or "GMOs are good!" as if GMOs are a single "thing." It's like debating whether or not drinking liquid is good for you.

    There is no simple answer to the question of whether or not GMOs are safe or harmful because it varies depending on what sort of GMO we're talking about.

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  • seanD
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    Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
    By what mechanism do GMOs threaten people's health?
    I'm not a scientist.

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  • Psychic Missile
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    Originally posted by seanD View Post
    Yep, that's what PM did; offer a cogent argument backed by peer review data. Blow it our your rear. It's a very controversial issue with many sides of the argument and many sides with peer review studies saying different things. Only in this case, I find the side saying GMO is unhealthy a bit more legitimate than say a side being funded by Monsanto who has more to lose.
    By what mechanism do GMOs threaten people's health?

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  • seanD
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    Originally posted by pancreasman View Post
    That's what I like: a cogent argument backed up with peer reviewed data.
    Yep, that's what PM did; offer a cogent argument backed by peer review data. Blow it our your rear. It's a very controversial issue with many sides of the argument and many sides with peer review studies saying different things. Only in this case, I find the side saying GMO is unhealthy a bit more legitimate than say a side being funded by Monsanto who has more to lose.

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  • Carrikature
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    Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
    There are legitimate issues with GMOs when it comes to ecology and agribusiness. There are no legitimate issues with GMOs when it comes to consumption.
    I'd be interested in seeing what the net impact on ecology actually is. Certainly, those sorts of crops are affecting the local ecology, but it seems like we could reach a point where we need to consume less to get the nutrients we need (especially in low fertility areas).


    Originally posted by Cerealman View Post
    We've been talking about this in AP Environmental Science class.
    I'd be interested in seeing what's been said about it.

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  • pancreasman
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    Originally posted by seanD View Post
    Bull.
    That's what I like: a cogent argument backed up with peer reviewed data.

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  • seanD
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    Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
    There are legitimate issues with GMOs when it comes to ecology and agribusiness. There are no legitimate issues with GMOs when it comes to consumption.
    Bull.

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  • JonathanL
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    It's "Is" not "are"!

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  • Cerealman
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    We've been talking about this in AP Environmental Science class.

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  • Psychic Missile
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    There are legitimate issues with GMOs when it comes to ecology and agribusiness. There are no legitimate issues with GMOs when it comes to consumption.

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  • 37818
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    GMO is a "mixed bag" so to speak. Making crops, for example, poisonous to insects. Can yet have unforeseen problems for birds who eat the insects and animals and humans who eat that corp. The developers claim it is safe. But is it? I'm not so sure the science is settled. Note the lose of bees and the monarch butterfly. Was it GMO? Maybe regarding the bees. GMO nicotine in come crops? Bees were not the target. The butterfly loss seems to be do to eradication of milk weeds around crops in farm land. I may not have all my facts straight here. But those things as I remember hearing them.

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