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Frankenfoods - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 25th Mar, 2007 - 10:38pm
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Will you eat them?Post Date: 5th Jan, 2005 - 11:04am / Post ID: #
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Humans love food and besides it being a requirement of life they (Scientists) are also trying to make it genetically superior to mother nature. Would you eat 'FrankenFoods', foods that are altered by chemicals or other scientific experiments before being sold?
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Farmers today can raise corn with a built-in pesticide, soybeans that thrive when sprayed with weed killer and squash that resist viruses. Some say they're biotechnological wonders. Critics call them "Frankenfoods."
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Farmers today can raise corn with a built-in pesticide, soybeans that thrive when sprayed with weed killer and squash that resist viruses. Some say they're biotechnological wonders. Critics call them "Frankenfoods."
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We all eat Frankenfoods everyday. We just don't know it. They don't tell us when the do this sort of thing and we just trust our food supply.
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I agree with Tena. It's not a matter of whether we will eat Frankenfoods. It is more a matter of whether we will continue to eat them. Personally, I am torn on the issue. If chemicals are not used, then it will be more expensive to grow food, then prices will rise, and the less fortunate will suffer for it. If chemicals are used, then there is the health risk, although there have been none so far; at least none that we know of.
Post Date: 6th Jan, 2005 - 1:07pm / Post ID: #
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About three years ago [give or take a year] all the corn tortilla's were pulled from the shelves because they had been made with field corn meant for cows. This corn was a bio-hybrid corn; *frankenfood* corn. NOT for human consumption. Excuse me, but the cows were meant for human consumption and they were being fed corn that is not for human consumption. That just doesn't sound right to me. Why would I then eat meat that had been fed food that was NOT for human consumption. Organically fed beef eat that which humans can eat, AND that have never been sprayed with pesticides and all the other poisons that will kill humans.
Bio genentic foods are not good for the human body. Go to the Organic Gardening web site and read about it there. As for the fertilizers that are added to the soil, there are only three main substances that are added back through synthetic fertilizers. Plants require many, many more than just them. By composting you add much more to your soil plus you stop the erosion.
By purchasing Organically grown produce you are supporting the proper way to grow foods. Yes, right now it is more expensive. But aren't you and your families overall health worth it?? Plus, once a farm has attained Organic Status, then the cost of their produce will come down. It is very expensive to "Clean Up" a farm site. Once more people start purchasing organically, then the costs will come down and stabalize.
Maicman, yes I agree wholeheartedly with you, the bigger the produce item, the less flavor it has. The reason is, the growers are forcing the produce to grow faster than nature intended and in the process has lost its flavor and quite often its texture as well. This is so they can get more harvests in a growing year.
This is most especially true with tomatoes. With a little care, anyone can grow enough tomatoes in a large patio pot to feed a family of four for a season.
If the farming and ranching industry would go back to the organic way and utilize the good bugs killing off the bad bugs, humans and animals and the earth would truly benefit from it.
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I wouldn't knowingly go out and buy any of these 'Frankenfoods' as in the long term, nobody as yet knows the effects these foods may have on your health. They are not far enough into the process to know exactly what damage could be caused, in my opinion.
On the other hand, we are probably as pointed out earlier in this post already eating this type of food, that has been pushed into growing sooner than it should have, and you're probably not even being informed of any chemicals that may have been used in the process.
To me, this is quite frightening, and I would say that organic is the way to go, to avoid this happening, but at the moment, the prices for organic food is very expensive, and a lot of it at the end of the day comes down to cost.
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| FDA poised to OK food from cloned animals Scientists say meat, milk just as safe as from conventional livestock Updated: 2 hours, 31 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Federal scientists have concluded there is no difference between food from cloned animals and food from conventional livestock, setting the stage for the government to declare Thursday that cloned animals are safe for the human food supply. The Food and Drug Administration planned to brief industry groups in advance of an announcement. The agency indicated it would approve cloned livestock in a scientific journal article published online earlier this month. The agency "concludes that meat and milk from clones and their progeny is as safe to eat as corresponding products derived from animals produced using contemporary agricultural practices," FDA scientists Larisa Rudenko and John C. Matheson wrote in the Jan. 1 issue of Theriogenology. |
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/
This is interesting! First, they've been running tests on cloned animals without telling "the public" about it (not that that's anything new, just one more instance of government secrecy...) . Second, cloning is still in its infancy - there isn't any way to know the long-range effects. What about the clone of a clone of a clone of a clone? Is *that* safe? We all know from other experiences that a copy of a copy is never as good as the original.
Also, normally, to approve something new with the FDA takes years and years; this approval has happened relatively quickly.
This is something to watch, in my opinion.
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Terminator Technology
The corporations that have developed certain genetically modified (GM) foods have designed ways to prevent the unauthorized (read: free) use of their products: Terminate the supposed "benefits" of the modifications under certain circumstances, or render future seeds unusable.
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| Terminator Technology is one form of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURT). There are conceptually two types of GURT. 1. V-GURT This type of GURT produces sterile seeds meaning that a farmer that had purchased seeds containing v-GURT technology could not save the seed from this crop for future planting. This would not have an immediate impact on the large number of farmers who use hybrid seeds, as they do not produce their own planting seeds, and instead buy specialized hybrid seeds from seed production companies. The technology is restricted at the plant variety level - hence the term V-GURT. Manufacturers of genetically enhanced crops would use this technology to protect their products from unauthorised use. 2. T-GURT. A second type of GURT modifies a crop in such a way that the genetic enhancement engineered into the crop does not function until the crop plant is treated with a chemical that is sold by the biotechnology company. Farmers can save seeds for use each year. However, they do not get to use the enhanced trait in the crop unless they purchase the activator compound. The technology is restricted at the trait level - hence the term T-GURT. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_Technology
Another argument in favor of finding heirloom seeds and using them instead of GM seeds that have a built-in expiration process....
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