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Gene transfer via genetic engineering is unnatural.

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

GENES NATURALLY MOVE BETWEEN KINGDOMS OF ORGANISMS DUE TO VIRUSES OR BACTERIA, and while it’s rare, it does happen.

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In europe, gmos aren’t allowed into the food supply.

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

IT’S TRUE THAT VERY FEW GMOS ARE CULTIVATED BY FARMERS IN EUROPE. “In fact, they really only grow genetically engineered corn — and only in a few countries,” McHughen says. “However, Europeans have plenty of food in the markets that are from genetically modified plants, which are imported from abroad.”

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Canada On GM Foods

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

In Canada, the regulatory body for all GMOs entering the Canadian marketplace is Health Canada, which states that it is unaware of any evidence that suggests GM foods are unsafe for us to eat. This is a daunting notion to promote since nearly ⅓ of Canadian food now tests positive for glyphosate herbicide residue. 88% of the Canadian public agrees that GMO products should be labeled and yet there is nothing enforcing this sentiment within our regulating bodies. Canada’s own Parliament has voted against the GMO labeling bill on two separate occasions. It would be ignorant to deny the amount of lobbying that occurs in Canada’s agricultural industry and the profound amount of influence these large corporations have on our government. It may seem perfectly reasonable to provide consumers with the basic information on how their food is produced, but that isn’t what these companies have in mind. Note that our only regulatory body on GMOs does not conduct their own research into new products that come into the market but instead relies on the companies themselves to provide studies. The qualifications of such are abysmal and peer review is optional. Furthermore, this evaluation process is far from transparent; any information in the evaluation is kept confidential and hidden from consumers, farmers, and independent researchers.

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Fact: The dose makes the poison

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

Toxicity is often misunderstood to be a black-and-white concept: a chemical either is or is not toxic. The reality is that toxicity is a continuum. Anything can be toxic if you consume enough of it — salt, baking soda, caffeine, Tylenol, vitamin D (which, by the way, is a great rat poison).

What does this mean for making choices about food safety? I make mine based on how the levels of toxin in my food compare to the safe limits (and how confident we are of those limits). Bringing this back to glyphosate and produce, let’s look at the answers to two questions:

How much glyphosate is in my conventionally grown food — in a worst case scenario?
How much glyphosate is safe?
I reasoned that if the worst case amounts of glyphosate are far below the most conservative safety limits set by international agencies, then I am in the clear. (Yes, I do trust the international guidelines, especially the more conservative ones.)

I focused my analysis on soy and corn because they are likely to have the highest levels of glyphosate (notably, the “Roundup Ready’ type).

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True: the controversy involving gmos is about technology.

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

MOST ANTI-GMO ACTIVISTS WON’T ADMIT IT, BUT THEIR REAL CONCERN IS THAT THE TECHNOLOGY SEEMS TO BE CONTROLLED BY A HANDFUL OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, MCHUGHEN SAYS. “They don’t like the idea of something as visceral and basic as the food supply being controlled by companies. That’s a fair issue, and it’s a very good question for society to discuss,” he adds.

“Is it appropriate in our multicultural, democratic society to have the food supply controlled by a handful of companies? That it’s an opportunity for discussion that gets sidetracked by the safety issues because people are much more concerned about safety than they are about these socioeconomic issues.”

Ellstrand adds, “We’ve got a lot of problems in the world; we shouldn’t just arbitrarily lock away certain tools such as genetic engineering. We just have to be mindful of how we use those tools.”

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It is going to cost a lot to get to net-zero

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

This is a very common myth but, in the words of Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, “Companies that don’t adapt will go bankrupt without question.”

Without even considering the environmental impacts of continuing dependence on fossil fuels, recent energy price rises demonstrate substantive financial and political implications for organisations, underlining the urgency of reducing reliance on fossil fuels for business sustainability.

Any efficiencies in energy use will reduce emissions AND costs resulting in financial net gain, i.e. the best way of reducing emissions is not to generate them in the first place.

Going to Net-Zero can be done in a smart way to be more resilient in the long-term, more cost-effective and more resource efficient. That means being more sustainable and resilient.

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We have to choose between nutrition or protecting the environment

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:41 +0000

Red meat, dairy and pork emit more than 70% of greenhouse gases
from agriculture, while consisting of just 10% of calorie intake. Not only
does the production of these foods harm the environment, but here in
Ireland, for example, the amount of meat we are eating is harmful to our
health.
Increasing our intake of grains, starches, beans and nuts, are beneficial
to both our health and the environment.
Research collected in the UN’s flagship Food Security and Nutrition in
the World Report leaves little room for disagreement.
A global switch to healthier diets would:
be more cost-effective (preventing the health costs of
malnutrition),
reduce world hunger, and
cut the cost diet-related greenhouse emissions by up to 75%

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Is Farmer Suicides being Rampant in Indian Agriculture –

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:40 +0000

Suicides, regardless of whether by farmers or non–farmers merit consideration and comprehension. In excess of 8 lakh, individuals bite the dust from self-destruction in a year on the planet (WHO).

The self-destruction rate in Russia is among the most elevated, 16% higher than the worldwide normal. In India, farmers self-destruction represents under 10 % of the complete self-destruction.

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Why GMOs Aren’t The Miracle Solution To Solving World Hunger Or Global Demand

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:40 +0000

Most notably the biggest advocating factor for GM foods is the claim of solving world hunger, even managing Earth’s growing population. For that to be true GM crops would have to outyield conventional crops on an unimaginable magnitude. But the reality is that there is no factual support for these claims. GM crops are no better than traditional methods of production if not worse, there are no GM crops that are more impervious to poor soil quality or tough climate. Most if not all are engineered for herbicide immunity or to contain some form of pesticides, occasionally both. Soy and corn, the two most-produced GM crops mainly go into animal feed, biofuel, and processed food. Proponents of the industry love peddling the narrative of a sustainable miracle solution in GM foods but it could not be further from the truth. When looking for information on population growth you’ll often come across statistics that state the population will grow to around 10 billion by 2050. By only looking at the population growth there is an illusion of insufficient resources simply because 10 billion is such a daunting number. What is failed to mention is that we currently already produce more than enough food for every person on the planet and have the current means of feeding 12 billion people (UN Food & Agriculture Organization). GMO advocates say that the technology is essential to feed the world. Yet the world already produces enough food for the expected population of the world by 2050. Hunger and food insecurity are not a production issue but one of social justice and wealth inequality.

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What It Means For Local Produce, Who Is Pushing For GMOs

misinforesearch.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:15:40 +0000

A handful of companies that control GM seeds are able to use predatory practices to increase the market share of their products. Ex. Monsanto (who own 60% of the industry) who makes the widely-used weed killer RoundUp, and developed crops that have a resistance to their own brand of herbicide. In countries like Mexico and Paraguay that grow the majority of North American produce, native crop farmers are being sabotaged to purchase only their seed and herbicide. It is a fact that when GMO seeds cross-pollinate with native seed crops it contaminates and turns them into so-called “monster crops”. So if one local farmer uses Monsanto’s seeds and it is blown onto a nearby farm that doesn’t use the seed it could contaminate a large portion of their annual yield. This strategy forcefully converts the local farmers in the area to exclusively plant Roundup-ready crops further adding to their monopoly over food production. RoundUp has been in over 100 litigations with the most recent one having a settlement of a little over 9 billion dollars because it caused Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (cancer) and is a carcinogen not labeled as such. These GM crops are being drowned in RoundUp. Monsanto has sued in retaliation against the farmers that have made complaints about their GM seeds’ predatory business monopoly. Monsanto has filed 144 lawsuits against farms for “violations against their patented seed technology”, And it has brought up to over 700 charges in an attempt to scare them out of legal action.

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