in other good news, GMO labeling loses in OR and CO (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 04, 2024, 10:12:23 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  U.S. General Discussion (Moderators: The Dowager Mod, Chancellor Tanterterg)
  in other good news, GMO labeling loses in OR and CO (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: in other good news, GMO labeling loses in OR and CO  (Read 4705 times)
Small Business Owner of Any Repute
Mr. Moderate
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 13,431
United States


WWW
« on: December 03, 2014, 12:08:10 PM »

Yea, how is this bad?  I'm not saying GMOs are inherently bad, but what's wrong with giving people information?  Is there something tangible we can compare this to? 

GMOs are seen as "scary" and this would provide no benefit to consumers. It would needlessly stigmatise an important innovation in food production. It's a dumb idea.

It might provide no benefit to you. But to the larger group of "consumers," yes, there are many of us who would prefer this stuff be labeled. And there are plenty of valid reasons to not want to eat GMO food. For me, it's not a food safety issue, it's a food quality issue. I find genetic modification frequently prioritizes crop hardiness and sugar content, not taste or quality.

GMO is just another one of those Bushie-esque cheats of unhealthy people to find a way to justify eating food high in fat and sugar. "It's not the empty calories in my chips that make them unhealthy, it's the corn syrup gluten GMOs!" More educated unhealthy people, but still Bushies nonetheless.

That's a pretty lazy, inaccurate generalization. I don't know any fat people who lie to themselves via GMOs. If someone knows enough about food to actually care about GMOs, they actually care about their food enough to avoid high fructose corn syrup and other genuinely unhealthy additives.

I don't care who you are, if you cut out or seriously restrict HFCS and gluten in your diet you will almost certainly lose weight and become healthier.
Logged
Small Business Owner of Any Repute
Mr. Moderate
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 13,431
United States


WWW
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2014, 05:35:18 PM »

Glad to see the level of discourse on this issue is "you guys are idiots" vs. "no you're the dumb ones."
Logged
Small Business Owner of Any Repute
Mr. Moderate
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 13,431
United States


WWW
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2014, 10:10:24 AM »

People deserve to know what's in their food, and it's wrong for many of you to side with businesses instead of the consumers.

Not if it has no meaning and serves only to scare people for no good reason. I side with consumers of food who oppose labelling things like THIS PRODUCT USES FERTILISER MADE FROM CHEMICALS and THIS PRODUCT WAS GROWN USING MECHANICALLY SOURCED WATER.

If a product uses "fertilizer made from chemicals," then it cannot legally be labeled as organic. These things really do matter to a lot of people, you know.
Logged
Small Business Owner of Any Repute
Mr. Moderate
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 13,431
United States


WWW
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2014, 10:26:17 AM »

Only insomuch as its hard to avoid those things, so you are forced to make changes. If you just switch from HFCS to a different sugar the difference is negligible.

There is a pretty significant difference in how the human body processes the two. HFCS requires absolutely no digestion and is much more readily absorbed into the blood stream than table sugar. It thus spikes insulin to a greater degree, leading the body to produce more fat. It's also a far more addictive drug than regular sugar, which leads to cravings that are stronger than with regular sugar. That encourages people to eat more product with HFCS than they would if it was made with regular sugar.

Given the sheer amount of HFCS in the food supply -- it accounts for 15-20% of our caloric intake -- swapping it out for something the body's digestive system is more capable of handling will have a significant effect on your body's operation.
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.026 seconds with 10 queries.