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Originally Posted by shcisamax
I, personally, am convinced our food supply is the reason for the increase in health problems ranging from heart disease to allergies and more. We simply didn't tinker with food 100 years ago. The land was natural where produce was grown and cattle ate and it wasn't controlled by large corporations looking for ways to swell profit and lower costs. Whether it is meat with added hormones, antibiotics etc. to gmo issues with built in pesticides, to preservatives and colors, to imitation "stuff" or sodium packed, our bodies are being pushed to metabolize non food substances.
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I respectfully disagree. Genetic changes cannot be passed from species to species. If the caveman ate lettuce of some sort, the lettuce has probably changed drastically genetically over the years. If you eat a chicken who has inherited an autosomal dominant genetic trait you can't be affected by it or harmed from it. People are quick to not understand how genetics work and what gene therapy and gene manipulation can and cannot do.
I strongly support stem cell research and did so when they used aborted fetuses which
Thankfully is no longer necessary. Genetic research is the way to solve some of the most horrendous diseases that affect mankind.
Smoking is much more an issue to worry about than Monsanto. Noxious by products from people and industry and cars. That to me is another unsolvable problem. We will eventually kill our planet but
hopefully by that time, the human race will have been able to find another to move to and effect the move. Greenies can worry and fuss and do small things, but they are not going to get much done. We aren't going to negate or reverse the industrial revolution.
There is always hope and our decent human brains. Some one of us, long after we are gone will figure it out.
Sermon for the day. My views only. As I get older I am overwhelmed by ignorance; mine and the worlds, so many more questions than easy answers.