People's irrational fear of GMO food is the same fear that drives anti vaccine and anti science. When will people stop letting fear rule?
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I am under th impression that we only need gmos to be able to feed animals Without them we could still feed ourselves
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GMO food is not just about yield, it is also about resistance to bugs and sicknesses. Without them we would lose many more crops.
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Also protecting the environment - GMOs produce more calories per acre. The more land we use the more damage we do
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Gmo's is the way forward. Millions die from malnutrition in poorer countries which can be avoided with Gmo's.
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They die because we feed animals instead of ourselves, cows eat 20x more and there are 1 billion+ at any given moment
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We need GMOs and we need to eat less meat - it's not one or the other. Check out golden rice, GMO rice that can save millions from blindness
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nothing against GMOs, all im saying is Agricultural Sustainability is a Meat Industry issue, not our issue and its being sold to scientists
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So we shift the talk to GMOs when in reality its just bad business looking for a scientific miracle
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GMO isn't a miracle though. We can produce more food on less land - why shouldn't we? Land use is the single most detrimental thing we do
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As far as meat goes, people have to be convinced to eat less. that's a cultural issue more than anything else.
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We should embrace GMOs, not demonize them. Education is the key. Ignorance is the lock.
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I want to see 7.5 billion people fed on foods without GMOs. I'll wait.
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Non-GMO food will easily feed 10 Billion. As long as we stop feeding food to food.
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Fantasies don't feed people.
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We can't get rid of animals we domesticated. Not to mention the rise in the cost of the food we'd have to start eating and the land needed
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(...) to grow that much food. Unless we're talking about aquatic farms, but then there's problems with that as well
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We already know it kills people
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GMO's have given us synthetic insulin. Without this drug, folks like me with type 1 diabetes would die. GMO's = good.
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Synthetic Insulin has more dangers than natural but the reason they do synthetic is so the drug companies can patent it and make money.
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Mostly minimal risks w/ both but 99.9% of people w/ diabetes use synthetic insulin. The patents are soon 2 expire. Its life-saving. Period.
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Around 30,000 people need to use natural animal insulin because they experience serious adverse effects when using synthetic insulin.
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Considering there are about 40M people worldwide with T1D alone, if ur figure is correct, thats a very small %.
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Maybe you can trust a company like Monsanto with their track terrible record since the 20's but I can't.http://earthjustice.org/features/ourwork/timeline-monsanto-s-chemical-romance …
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Monsanto doesn't make my insulin.
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