/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8881226
>The GMOs aren't bad for you

Part of the problem with GMO foods is that the Food & Drug Administration is in the pocket of Big Agro, so who knows if that GMO crop is bad for you? By the time you figure out it is bad for you, the executives and government officials who approved it are all long gone.

But the real problem with GMO foods is that Big Argo manipulates the genetics so that the food crops are not self-replicating; you can't save up some of seeds from this year's crop and plant them next year, they simply won't grow.

In essence, farmers are no longer growing food, they're stuck with a never ending "lease" on the food they're growing and have to keep going back to Big Agro every spring to buy more seeds.

>>7193473
> done more efficiently by machines

“Efficiently” : AKA more profits for the 1%ers on Wall Street...

It does NOT benefit you or the nation (or Humanity as a whole) for more people to be jobless or have shittier jobs.

Using a self-checkout machine means you spend more time checking out and are doing all the work yourself, meanwhile the cost savings from this increase in “efficiency” do not result in lower prices for you, but increased profits for the do-nothing Investor Class.

>>6378546
>If GMO is safe, then why does industry vehemently oppose labeling of GMO foods?

The industry's opposition to labeling is because they don't want to lose profits from people
who would not / might not buy the product if it were known to contain GMO elements, with
the industry claiming that from the consumer's perspective, GMO versions of a food product
are no different then natural versions, thus there is no need to specifically label them "GMO".

Which is of course bullshit.

As while that GMO corn may not taste any different then natural corn, who knows what
long term health issues could arise from splicing in genetic material from who knows what
other plants, animals, etc.?

For example, including insect genes in corn may make it resistant to predation by insects
but it could also results in humans having deformed, retarded babies.

There is also the related issue of Big Agriculture creating GMO food crops that are not
self-reproducing; if a farmer buys Monsanto corn and saves some of this years crop as
seed for next years crop, it simply won't grow. He has to continually buy new seeds from
Monsanto every year, forever.

This could theoretically result in a situation where if something happens to Monsanto's seed
manufacturing capability, corn could become extinct, plunging humanity into a global famine.

All so that a tiny parasitic minority of Wall Street investors can make a profit....