superchunk said:
No, but they also didn't eat McDonalds and other fast foods. Foods and drinks created without any natural products. Since 1900 we've added tons and tons of garbage and known cancer causing materials into our food/drinks and daily use products. Before 1900 our way of manipulating plant and animals was through selective breeding. Now its through adding chemicals and other fake matter. Watch the documentary Food Inc among many historical documentaries on how we've "progressed" over the last century. |
Absolutely not. That's a weird mix of different claims there, let me seperate them out.
The chemicals added to food do not cause cancer or health problems, that is scaremongering and not backed up by evidence. They mostly function as nutritionless filler, but they're not actually bad.
GM organisms are exactly as healthly as selectively breeding for the same genes.
I agree our diet has changed, but I don't think it is much worse. People then were dying from underconsumption and lack of nutrients. People today are dying from overconsumption of fat/salt/sugar, and lack of nutrients. They aren't that different though, both are diet problems.
Our current cancer rates are due to 1. age and 2. smoking+age, not anything to do with food additives, GM, or electronic devices.
The misconceptions of science in this thread makes me sad.
