OCCUPY WALL STREET

[SoNotHer]

To put it simply, there are proverbial genies pressure-popping out of bottle after bottle. Our food and medicine production has become like climate change - a runaway experiment that has vaulted the petri dish and headed for open ground. We are in terra incognito in more ways than we know.

There is no road map for where we are heading.

Originally Posted by persiphone

it's not you. it's complicated crap. there are lists of processed foods that are GMO. a good guidleline is that if it has corn, soy, or canola and hfcs (which is like 90% of what's on store shelves then you can pretty much bet it's a GMO product. lemme see if i can find a current list....

ok i found a pretty complete one here:

http://opposingdigits.com/forums/about52.html

i think the scarier scenario is our meat supply. GMO products are fed to our meat and dairy supply while simultaneously being raised on regular antibiotics. we then eat that meat and in some cases some of that meat is not always cooked beyond recognition. so live bacteria can survive. interestingly, a study was recently done on levels of antibiotic resistant bacteria on grocery store meat and the numbers were astonishing. turkey ranked the highest, followed by pork, then beef and then chicken. and we eat that! it's so bad that they tell people now not to rinse poultry in your sink cuz the splash from the water droplets will spread that antibiotic resistant bacteria around your kitchen.

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by SoNotHer

To put it simply, there are proverbial genies pressure-popping out of bottle after bottle. Our food and medicine production has become like climate change - a runaway experiment that has vaulted the petri dish and headed for open ground. We are in terra incognito in more ways than we know.

There is no road map for where we are heading.

i agree and i love that visual. and yanno this has been going on for quite some time. but like i said in an earlier post, we weren't taught this stuff and the generations after us aren't being taught either. i don't think that's an accident. and navigating this info to get a clear understanding of exactly the whys and the hows of GMOs can be daunting, even with some heavy microbiology knowledge, let alone without it. you can see why they are so against labeling these products on store shelves. when i walk into a grocery store now, i feel surrounded by inedible products and my choices are severely limited if i wish to remain gmo free without the expense of buying all organic.