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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Primarily, it's a mistake to call this type of packaged product "food."

Ask yourself this: if you were to see all of the ingredients out on a table, would you recognize them? Would you be able to distinguish between one lab-made element from another?

I'm by no stretch a loon or fundamentalist on most matters, but I believe very strongly that there is a high cost to pay as a society for the development of these kinds of "convenience" foods over the past several decades. Most specifically, the vast majority of corn, soy, and canola grown today is genetically modified (GM). Is it any coincidence that soy and corn are ubiquitous filler ingredients in processed food (e.g., soy lecithin, corn malodextrin)? [b]Since the 90's, big ag like Monsanto--maker of Roundup--has been creating Roundup Ready crops and patenting the genetic code for these crops[/b]. Making money with the poison and the poison-resistant crop--a crop that goes into your food. It's in everything, except organic food; the government prohibits the use of genetically modified ingredients in foods labeled organic. No one really knows what the accumulation of these GM foods will do in the body over time, but there is evidence suggesting it will not be harmless, to say the least.

I'm puzzled by people posting here who are proud of their purchase of these products. These companies are making money off of us when we buy this stuff, which only allows them to continue. We should be demanding food, not food products.

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Yikes. I'm assuming it's organic tin in your trendy chapeau?[/quote]

Why "yikes"? Because I read the newspaper? The study I referenced was from MIT, not Joe Blow's Shack of Paranoias.

It's not "trendy" to be informed or to make decisions based on all the information available at the time. I think it's easier to be snarky than to be skeptical based on knowledge. No one is telling you what to do--why the defensive and derisive comment?[/quote]

Also, "chapeau" poster, with regard to what you bolded in my post: if you think that a reference to Roundup Ready crops and patented genetically modified seed is "outside" or something only freak conspiracy theorists talk about, you should read up on current events. There was just a well-covered Supreme Court case on this very issue; the decision affirmed Monsanto's right to patent their genetically modified seeds and make farmers pay them for the use of them every year they use them to grow crops. Really--it's been in the news.[/quote]

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