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In reply to the discussion: These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs [View all]wisechoice
(180 posts)205. Here we go
My god is the big God
GMO is corporate nonsense. You can call it science or whatever you want.
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These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs [View all]
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
OP
Not sure of the point of your post, also, and this is important, it has nothing to do with Monsanto.
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#2
Because they're in cahoots with the lizard people and the illuminati to control the population
Nailzberg
Mar 2016
#5
They are literally brought up in every thread involving biotech, even when they had...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#7
Yeah, it bugs me immensily. And I'll just get called a Monsanto shill for saying it.
Nailzberg
Mar 2016
#12
Because you won't see any sort of labeling law that has anything remotely to do with pesticides
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#23
Believe it or not, synthetic pesticides are allowed under organic certification rules
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#78
It's OK for 100,000 children die each year, so long as "Monsatan" doesn't benefit
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#13
They are precisely like anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and those pro-lifers who...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#4
The labeling law failed in California because the corrupted election officials in
truedelphi
Mar 2016
#28
At the time this misconduct went down, reports came from more than a dozen different sources.
truedelphi
Apr 2016
#93
When asked what they want on food labels, only seven percent of people mentioned GMOs.
HuckleB
Mar 2016
#26
How would the labels punish Monsanto, and in addition, why should they be punished?
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#40
Monsanto is a seed company and agribusiness that is larger than GMOs, they even sell...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#55
Are you seriously suggesting that Monsanto owns the entire GMO industry?
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#161
Its correcting errors, a lot of people make claims about organic farming that are outright false...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#185
I find it distressing that Consumer Reports seems to have relied on organic lobbyists and marketing.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#128
The fact that you use a term like "frankenfoods" demonstrates to me that you don't know...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#164
They will punish them because companies like DelMonte who are going GMO free
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#149
Uhm, that article doesn't mention anything related to beta-carotene or Vitamin A...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#19
OK, how about an honest assessment, do you think genetically engineering...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#27
How would you fortify the food without genetic engineering? Also, I'm not a paid shill...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#36
Generally fortification involves either physically or chemically fortifying a processed food...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#44
Oh please, if they did safety tests on humans you would be complaining about that...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#76
Are you still harping on about that, its already been debunked. And this has nothing to do with GMOs
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#134
She has pushed that multiple times on this thread in the past few minutes, in fact.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#143
She's Gish Galloping this thread with bullshit that has NOTHING to do with this fucking banana crop.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#145
Well that's just a straight up lie you just told, what cancer from GMOs?
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#136
So what do you think of the World Health Organization saying GMO's possibly cause cancer?
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#125
Well, bananas are a staple crop, part of the reason they were selected...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#46
It is largely a question of scale, and also whether the vegetable with get the market penetration...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#50
That happened because of the misinformation campaign against GMOs spearheaded by Greenpeace...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#54
So I should consider the possibility that science denial is the same as science acceptance
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#59
Global warming denial is about denying real science in favor of pseudoscience
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#79
I repeat, Monsanto has produced and field tested GMO wheat in at least 400 trials.
So Far From Heaven
Mar 2016
#69
Sounds like you are acknowledging the fact that GM wheat hasn't made it out of the testing stage
Major Nikon
Mar 2016
#82
Monsanto paranoid about their wheat seeds polluting the world of wheat
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#106
This isn't like introducing Kudzu to a pristine environment, this is one man made/bred...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2016
#77
As long as we have proper oversight and this isn't for corporate profiteering
pediatricmedic
Mar 2016
#60
It's more like GMOs that will save millions of children from death and blindness...
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#95
World Health Organization Won’t Back Down From Study Linking Monsanto to Cancer
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#148
Food Babe looks healthier than the one you quote all the time - Cristie Wilcox who eats her gmos
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#198
Interesting paper from the EFSA detailing how the IARC focused on bullshit instead of science
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#178
Here's another interesting nugget of info you won't hear from the anti-science crowd
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#180
Detection of Glyphosate Residues in Animals and Humans - Environmental Toxicology
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#211
Why does it not surprise me a food babe fan would not be able to recognize junk science?
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#213
That's cool. Except the only reason people are dying from starvation now is political
killbotfactory
Apr 2016
#96
You seem to have failed to understand the article, its taking a local staple crop and modifying it..
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#118
I saw arguments on this board against both golden rice and this banana that sums up to...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#120
OH PLEASE a REGULAR banana is loaded with nutrients. Potassium being just one
bkkyosemite
Apr 2016
#127
First off, its the cooking banana, a slightly different cultivar to the one we eat...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#144
Gotta love it when someone tells you to "do your research" that obviously didn't do their own
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#218
GMO tech developing healthier limes and blood oranges, also with a sweet color?
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#158
Students can get $900 to test eat one of these bananas at Iowa State Univ
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#206
So we can genitically modify genes to produce helthier organs but not better food?
Jitter65
Apr 2016
#210