I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
@Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 Totally - I'm not against GMO food, I'm against the pesticides that get sprayed on them. If GMO is 'more nutritious/tastier/easier to grow/better', great! If GMO is just 'doesn't die when we soak everything in Roundup', heck no, because it's the Roundup and similar I don't want anywhere near me.
I want... Organic *and* GMO? Yeah, I don't know either.
@rotatingskull @Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 I have Crohn's disease and am at something close to 6x as likely as the general population to develop bowel cancer. There's a huge rise in Canada in Crohn's/IBS/UC in my age group and younger (I know at least a dozen people out of my social circles). I usually get organic if it's something that's known to be heavily sprayed *and* you eat the skin (i.e. strawberries), but not stuff you peel.
@rotatingskull @Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 Personally there's a couple fruits and veg. where my partner and I actually bought both and compared them, and found some organic stuff just tasted better, but that is more likely due to cultivar choices, time of harvest, etc.
If we can get it local from a farmer who seems to genuinely care more, that trumps organic vs. not. So yeah, it's only certain stuff for us, mostly to avoid the 'worst of'.
@rotatingskull @Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 Also, weirdly there's some spices and other things where the organic option from a smaller brand at the grocery store was *cheaper*, gram for gram, than the 'regular' brand. Just had that happen when getting smoked paprika last weekend.
That's usually not the case of course but now I double-check. :p
@kithop @Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 I certainly hope you don’t get cancer. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that conventional produce causes cancer or that organic produce prevents cancer.
@rotatingskull @Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 Not the produce specifically but the pesticides I'm worried about, and only because by being at-risk (with a constantly bleeding section of gut for the past number of years, no less) I figure my body's going to be more sensitive while constsntly trying to heal. If it's 'traditonal' but something they reserve spraying for only emergencies anyhow, that's cool. :) Our local hothouse tomatoes are like that.
@rotatingskull @Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 'Buying local and in-season' is my first priority, living at the edge of a rural area. Then if there's local canned/frozen for out of season, then stuff from at least the same country over stuff flown in from Cali or Mexico or even further if possible.
Organic vs not-organic is a parallel choice of 'how likely is this to be heavily sprayed and we eat the peel' and 'have we confirmed it tastes better' for me.
@kithop @ajroach42 organic and gmo is totally a thing you can have, and honestly a good combination in my mind.