11-30-2013, 06:46 PM
Thousands of studies that GMOs are safe? Me thinks not. Particularly any studies not funded by big business.
But Rob and Greg are right. Just because you buy organic doesn't mean that it's not owned by big business- because big business mas been buying up as many successful organic businesses as they can. Here's a link to a map from this past year of corporate ownerships and alliances:
http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa...rship.html
And as Greg points out, buying local is far more important that buying organic (or chemically grown from far away) because most foods, even produce is typically shipped thousands of miles from where it is ultimately consumed.
(Why is Foodland selling Clemantine tangerines from Florida here when so many of our local tangerine trees are beginning to bear heavily?)
Seems like the first issue to overcome is local control vs. corporate control from somewhere else, and that's one of the reasons why people are willing to restrict GMOs because they are clearly corporate and from somewhere else. And from a genetic standpoint, corporations don't care about preserving heritage lines of food crops in the areas they have been selected for thousands of years to become most adaptable and responsive to local conditions.
Mexico just decided to ban GMO corn because it threatens their multitude of heritage corn varieties which are and will continue to be essential to the perpetuation of their local food crops.
Haven't heard of anyone being able to survive by eating money, but in the end <making money> is all that corporations care about.
But Rob and Greg are right. Just because you buy organic doesn't mean that it's not owned by big business- because big business mas been buying up as many successful organic businesses as they can. Here's a link to a map from this past year of corporate ownerships and alliances:
http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa...rship.html
And as Greg points out, buying local is far more important that buying organic (or chemically grown from far away) because most foods, even produce is typically shipped thousands of miles from where it is ultimately consumed.
(Why is Foodland selling Clemantine tangerines from Florida here when so many of our local tangerine trees are beginning to bear heavily?)
Seems like the first issue to overcome is local control vs. corporate control from somewhere else, and that's one of the reasons why people are willing to restrict GMOs because they are clearly corporate and from somewhere else. And from a genetic standpoint, corporations don't care about preserving heritage lines of food crops in the areas they have been selected for thousands of years to become most adaptable and responsive to local conditions.
Mexico just decided to ban GMO corn because it threatens their multitude of heritage corn varieties which are and will continue to be essential to the perpetuation of their local food crops.
Haven't heard of anyone being able to survive by eating money, but in the end <making money> is all that corporations care about.