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In reply to the discussion: Andrew Weil, his woo, and anti-GMO hysteria... [View all]HuckleB
(35,773 posts)201. So you're going to pretend that I didn't answer your question.
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There are plenty of scientificallly illiterate people who don't believe in reality
roseBudd
Sep 2013
#141
There is "no till" organic and the idea that GMO farming reduces carbon emissions is bogus since
KurtNYC
Sep 2013
#279
My mother is alive thanks to multiple meds for atrial fibrillation & high BP...
roseBudd
Sep 2013
#123
Um ... why did you have high blood pressure and need 5 bypasses in the first place?
MH1
Sep 2013
#136
...henceforth identified as POO (corporate "science" & allied mega-funded corporate propaganda)
Berlum
Sep 2013
#92
LOL, so because you can't see the relationship it doesn't exist. Mkay. nt
laundry_queen
Sep 2013
#133
Is there any credible evidence that GMO food poses a legitimate health risk?
Gravitycollapse
Sep 2013
#16
Yeah...I was told the same thing about my kid's autism by the anti-vaxxers. I'll pass. nt
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#47
To be clear, you are suggesting that there is NO research proving that GMO is BAD for people...
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#189
Please answer my question. You are saying that there are no ill-effects to GMO at all...
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#194
Again, try Google, I neither have the time, nor the inclination to school yet another...
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#299
I may not agree with many coporations business practices such as Monsanto but I do not
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#19
So you think that there's a cartel of organic producers..furtively plotting the demise of the poor..
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#198
Do you think there's some magic that prevents Monsanto from buying organic companies? (nt)
jeff47
Sep 2013
#254
do you approve of monsanto going after farmers whose fields MONSANTO has contaminated, suing
niyad
Sep 2013
#42
that is the funniest thing I have read today. PLEASE tell me you forgot the sarcasm icon, because
niyad
Sep 2013
#115
GMOs harm the intestines of the animals who eat it. Ask the farmers who've taken sick animals off it
Precisely
Sep 2013
#97
We should do both. But Ted Kennedy fought for decades to have better labeling and in the end,
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#284
At the time I was diagnosed, it took the average Celiac 11 years to get diagnosed.
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#306
But if we don't know an ingredient is in our food, there's NO chance of linking
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#356
As a personal friend of Dr. Weil, I call LIAR on that article. Why post this BS?
Coyotl
Sep 2013
#33
I know, Monsanto and GMO are awesome and safe. Roundup - I love spraying it right from the bottle..
tenderfoot
Sep 2013
#221
Union of concerned scientists... sounds like the concerned women of America.
tenderfoot
Sep 2013
#295
no, because you are threatening THEIR scientifically-based beliefs. no evidence to the contrary
niyad
Sep 2013
#41
to all who defend gmo food, answer this: if this genetic tinkering is NOT dangerous,
niyad
Sep 2013
#43
They don't want the labeling because they know that consumers don't want these products.
Gormy Cuss
Sep 2013
#44
there's propaganda on both sides. It's impossible to know the truth. Real scientific research
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#73
amazingly enough, some of us actually KNOW what ascorbic acid is, and sodium chloride, but nice
niyad
Sep 2013
#116
since I have neither used that word, nor posted pictures, that remark cannot possibly be addressed
niyad
Sep 2013
#140
so GMO foods would fail in the marketplace- or be niche- like organics are. Sounds fair to me.
bettyellen
Sep 2013
#150
oh bullshit. labeling is there for consumer to use to make decisions and there is no good reason to
bettyellen
Sep 2013
#175
in other words, you don't HAVE an answer that doesn't involve huge wads of money, yes?
niyad
Sep 2013
#319
The studies don't support his views. Your anecdotal evidence is the worst kind
roseBudd
Sep 2013
#149
So you hate GMO’s because they are untested. What about feelbetteramine from the health store?
roseBudd
Sep 2013
#131
DU has become the go-to place for assinine Rightwing propaganda. "anti-GMO hysteria" my ass. nt
Romulox
Sep 2013
#147
Certainly a phrase the Monsanto PR department would approve of -- or perhaps authored
villager
Sep 2013
#176
I'm not denying science. And neither is Don Huber, retired Agri prof. at Purdue University
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#170
So GMO's are actually great, and all of the countries that have banned them have been snookered...
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#223
Right. Personal comments are so much more useful than actual logic or data. n/t
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#266
Your only contribution to a reasoned discussion was a link to an industry site.
pnwmom
Sep 2013
#277
IF GMO'S WERE GOOD FOR YOU - THEY WOULD WANT THEM TO BE LABELED! Not going in my body.
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#195
You clearly did not read the links I posted to sites that actually dig into the science.
HuckleB
Sep 2013
#247
So you think you can push crap upon others and then make excuses when they point that it's crap.
HuckleB
Sep 2013
#268
You haven't read it, but offer your opinion...tell me again how I'M the one that's full of crap...
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#289
As previously stated the site can be whatever it wants, the report, with it's SCIENCE...
truebrit71
Sep 2013
#294
Can't answer my question? If it was good for you - they would want it to be labeled, heck, they'd
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#241
HAHAHA. You're not to be taken seriously then. That was a reply, not an answer.
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#250
You failed to write science in all caps and therefore didn't convince me!!!11!!
Democracyinkind
Sep 2013
#318
So all these people pushing fear without evidence to justify fear aren't pushing fear?
HuckleB
Sep 2013
#345
Where is the independent study showing that GMO food causes long term harm?
Glassunion
Sep 2013
#324
The problem with that equation is that hybridization only happens via genetic modification.
HuckleB
Sep 2013
#331
Thus, you admit that don't understand how biology, chemistry and genetics work.
HuckleB
Sep 2013
#334
You're offering up a very simplistic definition that ignores how those things happen.
HuckleB
Sep 2013
#344
If you can't explain it simply, you probably don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein
Glassunion
Sep 2013
#348
That the shills for the chem-companies don't want labels tells you everything you need to know.
Romulox
Sep 2013
#346