U.S government wants imported food to have same health standards U.S food does

[Kasz216]

the2real4mafol said:

Kasz216 said:

the2real4mafol said:

And i'm sure what Monsanto did to wheat can't be good when there have been no proper tests on GM food.

Also, there have been tests on GMO foods.  They just generally don't show anything wrong outside a few studies that didn't really hold up to rigorus scrutiny. Which is sort of the problem with these sort of things.  You never here about the 100 stories where everythings great, just the 1 story where something maybe is't so great. 

 

Why would they show anything wrong?  You are genetically altering the food to be like antoher completely edible food.

The biggest risks lie largely just in allergines.

The only reasonable reason to be against GMO's right now is because of the US's (and maybe europe?   I dunno) silly application of patents relating to GMOs.  Which really DOES need to change.

 

Genetically modifying foods is actually a tradition that goes back.... centuries.  The only thing that's changed is the way we do it.  Instead fo waiting seasons for crossbreeding to take effect.  We do it in a lab... and we actually test it... which wasn't the case for crossbreeding.

 

In the future GMO's will be used (hopefully) to make healthier nutritous foods.

http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/gmo_foods.htm

There's only so much that can go wrong with cross-breeding seeds, but because now we can do it in labs and add any manmade chemicals in it. It can be more dangerous. And because a giant corporation is doing it, i can't even trust GM foods. They cut corners where ever they can, including how safe the food may be. They don't care as long as they make their profit and sales targets. I may be abit cautious on these GM foods and new technology, but i would rather keep to what's tried and tested when it comes to food. A lot of it is fine as it is.  

So your arguement is that because it's a big corporation they're guilty until they are proven guilty and no amount of testing (Of which there is a LOT) that proves it's safe will ever convince you.

You are exactly what's wrong with the aforementioned health movement, and why we will never be as healthy as we could be.

If you weren't so focused on parnoid accusations where there is no proof, researchers and companies would be much more willing to not only genetically alter food so it's easier to grow (which is what GMOs do, make it so that poor areas can grow foods without risk of losing their homes and starving nations)

but also so that it produces far more nutriets then it normally does.

 

If everyone switched to purely organic methods of farming, we'd have food shortages, and certain areas could never have locally grown foods due to inhospitable climates... and we would do this because despite all the studies and tests showing everything is ok.... you don't trust big companies?

 

Europe has a GMO ban for one reason... and it's that the big countries that can grow crops, don't want the smaller countries with inhospitable climates and poor soil to be able to compete in the little free trade protectionism zone known as the EU.  (well and that some of the profits would find it's way to the US, since the US leads the field.)