/ck/ - Food & Cooking

> 'shellfish allergy'
> bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods all considered 'mollusca'
> people getting assravaged that OP's allergy isn't limited to just bivalves

Summer is coming.

>>4991613
If you have already been diagnosed then what is the point in going back? What else can they do, if you're 22 and schizophrenic you're probably already on meds.

>>4958266

GMO crops often need more labor and more intensive use of things like pesticides than normal crops. Particularly some of the GMO varieties of soy or corn. Often there are two different types of GMO crops of the same food type. The most popular are the types designed to survive herbicides like glyphosate (aka roundup). Plants usually die when exposed to an herbicide, but through genetic modification they can survive it. One of the problems with this is that these same crops require a helllllllll of a lot more herbicide used on them on a regular basis and the herbicides like glyphosate require a nasty surfactant to even be of any use. The surfactants are usually pretty toxic and they tend to drive the herbicides deep into the tissues of plants. It helps kill unwanted plants even better, but itl means your GMO foods like soy and corn are packed with more crap you don't really want in your body.

When I had to do some research papers in college on this stuff it was really interesting to learn about. Up til then I didn't know that some GMO crops required more pesticide use and more intensive farming for about the same result. Right now I've got some people at the UF college of agriculture asking me to join in some research work with them. They've got all this new multi-million dollar lab equipment and insane amounts of money from farmers and agriculture companies like Monsanto. Agriculture research is surprisingly interesting and profitable.