FDA Wont Allow Food to Be Labeled Free of Genetic Modification:

[seedcorn]

general public who only care that food is cheap & readily available to eat with the minimum preparation

Herein lies the problem. People are only getting what they want (pay for).

I find it funny that people eat the wrong foods, strive for a less physical taxing job, then join a "health" club to exercise to try and get the pounds off.

 

[vfem]

general public who only care that food is cheap & readily available to eat with the minimum preparation

Herein lies the problem. People are only getting what they want (pay for).

I find it funny that people eat the wrong foods, strive for a less physical taxing job, then join a "health" club to exercise to try and get the pounds off.

And pay high premiums for health insurance so they can make regular visits for health problems related to a poor diet that the FDA keeps insisting is just fine because they approved it!

 

[Warthog]

Hattie, thanks for those links, made quite interesting reading.

Did UK not learn from BSE, all that pontification about not being able to transmit to humans.

Mess with nature and nature will ALWAYS bite back.

I am no scientist, but this is all wrong. I think the world is on self destruct.

 

[hoodat]

general public who only care that food is cheap & readily available to eat with the minimum preparation

Herein lies the problem. People are only getting what they want (pay for).

I find it funny that people eat the wrong foods, strive for a less physical taxing job, then join a "health" club to exercise to try and get the pounds off.

That is all too true. We want to keep fueling our bodies for physical work but then don't want to do the work.
My grandfather lived to 98 years old and what he ate for breakfast would kill most people nowadays. He'd start off with a big pan of sliced salt pork or bacon, then he'd pour the grease onto a stack of pancakes and top it with maple syrup or blackstrap molasses. Then he'd stuff some molasses or oatmeal cookies into his pockets and head off into the woods with an axe and felling saw or into the hayfield to pitch hay by hand onto a wagon around the time the sun came up and stay there working till dark. He'd have the cookies for lunch and get home at dusk starving for meat and potatos with lots of gravy. He ate big but he needed all of those calories to fuel the hard work he did. In spite of his diet he was always lean and his muscles were hard as a rock.
Modern folks don't need all that fat and sugar to sit on their butt all day.
I have a neighbor that drives three miles to a gym so she can work out on a treadmill. I've asked her why she doesn't walk or jog the three miles and save the gym fees and gas money.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

I found this article in one of our newspapers (The Independant) yesterday. I thought you might be interested. We don't grow GM Maize over here (in the UK), so far at least......there is a lot of lobbying going on to allow certain GM crops to be allowed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...-rivers-across-the-united-states-2091300.html

Hattie