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In reply to the discussion: Yes, GMO's are great and here is why... [View all]HuckleB
(35,773 posts)71. Awww, cute. You don't like it when your BS is shown for what it is.
You want to label seed development technologies, then label them all. You don't want to do that, then stop demonizing GMOs without justification. It's not ethical.
BTW, the shill gambit is just goofy. It shows that you have no argument to offer.
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Fine, label them so I can know what I am serving my family. If they are so great let me chose them
peacebird
Mar 2015
#1
If GMOs are so marvelous you should be able to label them & sell them for higher$$$$, right?
peacebird
Mar 2015
#5
Nye is not a trained geneticist or a food scientist, so the anti-GMO crowd dismisses him.
Orrex
Mar 2015
#111
I'm proud to support GMOs - Can you link to any studies that show my examples have negative impacts?
Lancero
Mar 2015
#17
Please list these "thousands of peer-reviewed" studies from around the world
Art_from_Ark
Mar 2015
#126
Listen, feel free to feed your family whatever you want. My family doesn't want GMOs. We don't
sabrina 1
Mar 2015
#109
Well said. I don't get the attempt to FORCE people to eat what they don't want to eat.
sabrina 1
Mar 2015
#110
I don't have diabetes. I don't need insulin. Label the food so we can decide whether to put
sabrina 1
Mar 2015
#108
+100. They want to feed ordinary people crap. Only the rich should be able to choose.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#115
That's great, but a few people calling them that isn't going to change the dialogue.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Mar 2015
#34
I think I will just keep on buying locally grown veggies and fruits and meats from the Amish
leftofcool
Mar 2015
#6
It's only a bunch of gobbledygook if you don't understand basic biology...
MrMickeysMom
Mar 2015
#102
You won't bother? Apparently, you don't bother to read further than you want.
MrMickeysMom
Mar 2015
#107
at least they don't 'cite' websites funded by the kochs and run by the living marxism group...
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#66
If mutation breeding food is great why the need to trick people into eating it?
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#49
Good fucking grief! Not only are insulin-making bacteria living in vats separated from
eridani
Mar 2015
#31
Neither is agrobusiness. Apparently, Europe is out of scientists that agree with you.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2015
#45
Oh, anti-GMO tends to go hand in hand with anti-vax, chemtrails, and the whole shebang.
HuckleB
May 2015
#133
And all that extra roundup in our food means weeds will not grow in our intestines.
randr
Mar 2015
#87
Your argument is false, and you are already backing away from your previous claims.
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#124
I oppose GMO ingredients in food, I support the manufacture of novel GMO drugs unavailable otherwise
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#93
(Not directed toward KA) I saw the top link on Twitter the other night.
proverbialwisdom
Mar 2015
#125