GMO food scadal and harmful effects to the society.

[Pi$$]

Yes the GMO is an acronym for Genetically Modified Organism. They are organisms where their generic materials has been altered using different generic chemicals or biological techniques to introduce new traits. These pathfinders came with the intention of recreating new traits that will stand as a resistance to pests or herbicides while deep down their intention is to increase maximum supply of crops to meet exportation demands. In general is to make profits which these new traits of crops on the other hand have several effects to the health of humans and his environment. Those who consumes this crops later in the future gets sorts of illness which they do not know the origin of it. Most of these crops are manufactured in the laboratory and transported to individual homes. Common crops like corn, soybean, cotton, canola, yam, potato and so many are GMO crops. Common animals like Pig, sheep and so many others are also altered in the labs.

This is very alarming because both vegans and non-vegans are at high health risk. The meat grown lacks the necessaries flavors and nutrients especially the crops. The milk produced from these animals lacks a lot of vitamins it also lacks fat to bring out the flavor. All of these have been altered in the lab.

Be careful of what you eat, Health is wealth. The debate still goes on if GMO crops/animals are good.

Here is a few links to study.

1. Is Biotech safe
2. The Debate About GMO Safety
3. Against Genetic Engineering

[Marvelockg]

at present, there is little amount of 100% natural foods and animals in the world, most crops and animals have all been enhanced and the use of supplements and chemicals that aids it rapid growth and development have resulted in in plants and animals growing two times it normal expected growth period and certainly, there is going to be health implication of consuming more of those kind of food.

the need to get more profit has resulted in the use of some harmful poultry feeds that causes fast growth of fouls and even fishes in poultry and fishponds and these certainly has its own health effect.

for humans, it is what is on the trend as people are trying to modify almost all the part of their bodies which might have implication on the kind of offspring we see in the future who might have distorted growth due to the effect of the chemicals and procedures that are used in carrying out that sort of modification. at the end, things might look really bad for the future far more than what we are currently facing at the moment and overall, life expectancy will continue to reduce generation by generation.

[Zlantann]

Be careful of what you eat, Health is wealth. The debate still goes on if GMO crops/animals are good.

These days seasonal crops can be available all year round because of GMOs. The cost of producing crops has also been reduced drastically because of these scientific crops. With limited space, farmers can produce more products. Many farmers in my country don't care about the effect of these crops since they are making a profit from these plants

But the debate about the harm these GMO crops cause to the body will never end. These plants are produced by powerful agribusinesses that can control the press, thereby making it difficult to discover the truth about these modified crops. There are also concerns that these plants change the texture of the soil, making it difficult for natural plants to grow on them.

I try as much as possible to avoid consuming these products, but it is becoming difficult every day because the market is saturated with these products. And natural agro products are becoming expensive. If I have the means, I will set up a small farm where natural crops and plants will be nurtured for my consumption.

[AmoreJaz]

The truth is, these days, hard to determine if what you are eating is already GMO-produced or not or with some of GMOs inside your food packs. Maybe, if we can't eradicate such chance, you can do cleansing of your system by eating local fruits or vegetables every once in a while.
We are already in the stage where you can't control and contain what you are eating or what will end up on your table. But you can minimize the exposure by patronizing local food supplies and have other food intake that you think will remove some of your toxins in the body.

[icalical]

Not really an expert in agriculture, but having followed the debate about GMO for some time now, I think it is a big debate. Though some believe that GMOs could present health risks, with the heightened use of herbicides on the genetically engineered crops leaving residues on foods, there are many large health organizations that believe GMO foods are as safe as their non GMO counterparts, like the American Medical Association.

And I think nowadays it's quite hard to find vegetables or fruit that's purely not genetically modified. There is also the advantage of GMOs in ensuring food security due to increased crop yields. However, quite fairly, their health and environmental impacts have raised several questions. At the end of the day, informed choices about food that answers to your values and priorities regarding health will be a personal decision. Both sides show valid arguments, and the debate probably will continue for some time.

[NotATether]

A lot of foods in the West are grown using GMOs. But most other parts of the world still farm their crops naturally. This is a good thing since it is less likely that those people will experience weird health problems that may potentially be introduced by those GMOs. (I'm not a biochemist, so what do I know - but I, like all other people, do eat, so I might as well weigh my opinion on this here.)

[Agbamoni]

The truth is, these days, hard to determine if what you are eating is already GMO-produced or not or with some of GMOs inside your food packs. Maybe, if we can't eradicate such chance, you can do cleansing of your system by eating local fruits or vegetables.

Exactly. We can hardly tell which food stemmed out of the lab or not. GMO foods are everywhere. Two months ago, my sister tried to send some local foodstuff to a family in the diaspora, and the shipment was seized on the way to her client. They now have a standard of how food must be grown. The size, the look, and other ways they use to test these foods out. 4 tubers of yam were seized because they said insects infected it and so on, they say. Yet, most GMO foods are being shipped down to these countries and nothing is being done. Which do you think is more harmful, the chemicalized or should I say enhanced genetic food made in the lab? or food grown from natural soil?

I also heard that some GMO foods are grown from tampered soil. Soils are poured into chemicals to improve the genetics nature of it so that crops that should be grown in 6 months will be grown in 2 to 3 months. God save us all.

[el kaka22]

My dad's friend raises rabbits, so I know just about those ones nad can't talk about globally and about all animals. And even though he raises one of the most healthiest and most organic ones around because he built a whole place for them and let them roam free, it is still important for most of them to take certain shots and medicine to keep surviving.

I believe it is not just about eating true organic real animals, but it is also about the fact that if you want to go back and do the old way to make sure you raise the healthiest and best ones, you would have to sell like 5x the price of what they are sold. One rabbit costing about 7 dollars, would have to be near 40 dollars to be profitable that way.

This way you keep more of them alive and healthy, and then you can sell for cheaper. Now you may say, lets try and offer people this option too, which some people tried, 7 dollars with these "bad" harmful ones, and 40 for the healthy ones, I have seen with my own eyes that 40 dollar ones weren't sold, only a few, so why would farmers do that? Makes no sense financially.

[shinratensei_]

at present, there is little amount of 100% natural foods and animals in the world, most crops and animals have all been enhanced and the use of supplements and chemicals that aids it rapid growth and development have resulted in in plants and animals growing two times it normal expected growth period and certainly, there is going to be health implication of consuming more of those kind of food.

definitely, it's not that we don't care about our heatlh, finding a good food is hard, finding good food with cheap price is even harder, everything is GMO food these days there's just no escape and if we're willing to take a longer step to find one, it's gonna be priced really high, moreover, it's still grey and unclear whether GMO food are truly harmful some side say it's the same as non-GMO counterpart in term of nutrition and side effect, the other side it's really bad it could cause disease.

honestly at this point, spare me of the confusion and let me get the food.

[DrBeer]

Yes the GMO is an acronym for Genetically Modified Organism. They are organisms where their generic materials has been altered using different generic chemicals or biological techniques to introduce new traits. These pathfinders came with the intention of recreating new traits that will stand as a resistance to pests or herbicides while deep down their intention is to increase maximum supply of crops to meet exportation demands. In general is to make profits which these new traits of crops on the other hand have several effects to the health of humans and his environment. Those who consumes this crops later in the future gets sorts of illness which they do not know the origin of it. Most of these crops are manufactured in the laboratory and transported to individual homes. Common crops like corn, soybean, cotton, canola, yam, potato and so many are GMO crops. Common animals like Pig, sheep and so many others are also altered in the labs.

This is very alarming because both vegans and non-vegans are at high health risk. The meat grown lacks the necessaries flavors and nutrients especially the crops. The milk produced from these animals lacks a lot of vitamins it also lacks fat to bring out the flavor. All of these have been altered in the lab.

Be careful of what you eat, Health is wealth. The debate still goes on if GMO crops/animals are good.

Here is a few links to study.

1. Is Biotech safe
2. The Debate About GMO Safety
3. Against Genetic Engineering

1. GMOs are not about chemistry. GMO is about genetic modification of the initial product to improve its consumer characteristics or to reduce the cost of obtaining it.
It can be, for example, modification of grain crops for better resistance to pests or negative factors. Also such modifications allow better and longer storage of products without loss of quality.
It can also be modification to increase consumer characteristics - for example, to give a richer flavor, increased sweetness, or energy value.
2. We have been living in a world of genetically modified foods for YEARS. in the past this was called “hybrids” and we know a lot of hybrids of fruits, vegetables and even animal breeds.
3. do not forget the key rule of nature - “genetic exchange” is possible only at the horizontal level, within one species. It means that if you, for example, ate a fish with added genes of a snail - you will not become a snail For this reason you will not become a cow by eating beef steak, or you will not become a fish by eating raw tuna sushi....

[Unknown Op]

OP you are Welcome to give best topic to discuss. I have negative point of view against the GMO because it is not producing best nutrients for us and we need nutritional requirement to grow in the life and government is silent in the aspect because they are getting money from the business owners but it should be change because it is damaging our health system. Health system should at priority and we will lose everything if we did not work on that. Most of the fruits which we are eating is looking like these are very tasty but when you eat then we get the taste that is not equal to quality.There should be organization which should work against the scientists who are working on that . That are changing the nature of God which is crime and many people died due to this GMO.

[Mate2237]

Genetically modified food are gradually gaining ground in the world as it use is becoming more common among the world population genetically modified food has been linked to different diseases such as cancer and other healing risks factors genetically modified food are quite bigger than the normal size of food

Even though genetically modified food was brought out to solve the problem of hunger and malnutrition in the world because these foods has been scientifically designed to provide high nutrients to the human body their negative effects to human health is still been studied as they has some potential negative effects to human health

[Stepstowealth]

Be careful of what you eat, Health is wealth. The debate still goes on if GMO crops/animals are good.

It is on the process of modification that a lot of new diseases are formed. Our forefathers and ancestors existed and lived healthily without having to consume any genetically modified food or produce from any Genetically modified animal. Scientists are bored and are trying to fix things that are not broken.
The only way to ensure the food quality and safety these days is if you are the one who is in charge of the production of the crop or rearing of the animal from which the agricultural cultural products comes from.

[rodskee]

This is very alarming because both vegans and non-vegans are at high health risk. The meat grown lacks the necessaries flavors and nutrients especially the crops. The milk produced from these animals lacks a lot of vitamins it also lacks fat to bring out the flavor. All of these have been altered in the lab.

this mutation and alteration of food in the lab poses a threat to us humans because there will be too much chemicals that we will consume when we eat food that is made from the lab we are not getting the natural flavors and all the nutrients not to mention that this will surely also affect the ecosystem and might also be a threat to animals and plants due to the rate of harvesting them

all this is a result of capitalism and greed they are using chemicals in the lab to produce more and "better" quality products for higher profits

[landheer]

Be careful of what you eat, Health is wealth. The debate still goes on if GMO crops/animals are good.

Foods containing GMO elements affect human health, although they help a lot in improving better results, producing genetically modified plants and animals can affect their future survival, with the chemicals used can worsen the health of those who consume them, awareness is needed in this case for prevention from the start that needs to be applied.

[Ucy]

It is actually not good to eat them. They're fake version of the real(like real vs fake gold), have no shield. It's like eating zombies. And it won't be wrong to call them artificial plants or animals.

Humans should rather do the right things to naturally increase the yield of natural plants and animals. When evil increases the natural tends to decrease in yields, then humans develop means to circumvent the yield reduction at the detriment of their well-being.

I think they choose this path to feed the growing human population and survive than starve.  The natural foods could sustain the population if they were living morally or the right kind of life

This is basically why seperating from the rest of humanity who do things like that is important.
The seperation allows a people to live the right kind of life, grow natural foods, eat natural foods, live naturally, etc.  Otherwise you risk sharing a world only the GMOs grow, and no natural plant/animal exists.

[Stablexcoin]

It is actually not good to eat them. They're fake version of the real(like real vs fake gold), have no shield. It's like eating zombies. And it won't be wrong to call them artificial plants or animals.

Humans should rather do the right things to naturally increase the yield of natural plants and animals. When evil increases the natural tends to decrease in yields, then humans develop means to circumvent the yield reduction at the detriment of their well-being.

I think they choose this path to feed the growing human population and survive than starve.  The natural foods could sustain the population if they were living morally or the right kind of life

This is basically why seperating from the rest of humanity who do things like that is important.
The seperation allows a people to live the right kind of life, grow natural foods, eat natural foods, live naturally, etc.  Otherwise you risk sharing a world only the GMOs grow, and no natural plant/animal exists.

I found deep meaning in everything you said here. You know i basically feel those food are the most proffered choice to eat. Only for me to make more research to see the disadvantages after reading through this thread. Only God knows the amount of fake sweet potatoes and rice i have eaten. Sometime i am sacred of buying somethings because it feels like everything is inferior these days. Its difficult to see good things. Well, the best way to avoid eating fake food is to have your own farm. At least some crops should be produced in your personal farm.

Anyone that cant be produced there should be avoided to eat.

[Zlantann]

I found deep meaning in everything you said here. You know i basically feel those food are the most proffered choice to eat. Only for me to make more research to see the disadvantages after reading through this thread. Only God knows the amount of fake sweet potatoes and rice i have eaten. Sometime i am sacred of buying somethings
because it feels like everything is inferior these days. Its difficult to see good things. Well, the best way to avoid eating fake food is to have your own farm. At least some crops should be produced in your personal farm.

Anyone that cant be produced there should be avoided to eat.

Having your own farm is a good means of avoiding these GMOs. But you should also pay attention to the seed you are planting. These days GMO seedlings are are taking over the market. You need to be sure that they are natural seeds before planting. Nevertheless, if you want to avoid these artificial plants, avoid eating in restaurants except you are sure that they use natural plants to prepare meals. Most of them use GMOs because it is cheaper than others. Cook your meals if you want to be sure of the ingredients.

[goldkingcoiner]

This is very alarming because both vegans and non-vegans are at high health risk

Not really, no.

No matter how the genetics are modified, any genetic material will be destroyed by stomach acid. Non of it combines, manipulates or otherwise affects our own DNA. So unless they are modifying plants to be poisonous, I see nothing to be afraid of.

[avikz]

Be careful of what you eat, Health is wealth. The debate still goes on if GMO crops/animals are good.

Do we have a choice? I mean if I am unable to grow vegetables in my own garden, I am typically forced to buy from the supermarket or from the local farmers. There's no guarantee that the produces are not GMO. So what we can do here to ensure we are having freshest vegetables? I don't think we have a choice here at all.

Also if a crop is genetically modified to prevent the requirement of using pesticides, is it not good? I am sorry as I don't have much knowledge about these things, but what's the way out for commoners like us?