Orange juice is being genetically engineered?

[Ralphy1]

It will be available for your breakfast table soon! I will drink it if it is cheaper than organic, will you?

 

[rkunsaw]

NO, I won't knowingly drink it.

 

[Pappy]

You're asking a Florida person? Nah...never happen.

 

[Ralphy1]

The oranges will still be grown in Florida. They will just be easier to grow and better...

 

[SifuPhil]

GMO = Genetically Modified Orange

 

[Ralphy1]

Umm, think of all the juice that you could squeeze out of that sucker...

 

[Pappy]

Omg.....

 

[QuickSilver]

No one has ever given me a satisfactory reason why GMOs are harmful to eat? The body just breaks down all nutrients to a molecular level and uses what it needs. What harmful ingredient is added to a GMO that can hurt me?

 

[rkunsaw]

GMOs are genetically modified to be resistant to roundup ( glyphosate ). The crops are then sprayed with glyphosate to kill the weeds without killing the crop. The glyphosate is then taken through the roots and is in the food you eat.

There is plenty of information about glyphosate. Monsanto will say good things. Others will disagree.

Additionally, no one knows yet what the long term effects of changing the genetic makeup of the food we eat might have. I prefer the " don't fool with Mother Nature" approach/

 

[JustBonee]

" don't fool with Mother Nature" approach ... yes, :iagree: ...

 

[QuickSilver]

So if we modify something to be more draught resistant...or to be disease resistant.. I still don't understand how we are hurt by eating that particular food, provided we are not injecting chemicals into it.. but only altering the genetic make up of a plant.

 

[rkunsaw]

But we are putting chemicals directly into the food crops. Glyphosate! Every GM ear of corn ( or other food crop ) has glyphosate in it.

 

[Ralphy1]

Twenty years on and so sign of ill effects from GMO foods on humans...

 

[QuickSilver]

But we are putting chemicals directly into the food crops. Glyphosate! Every GM ear of corn ( or other food crop ) has glyphosate in it.

I understand that.. but haven't we always put chemicals on crops.. fertilizers.. insecticides.. etc? I guess we can all just buy organic.. or all just grow our own food.

 

[Twixie]

If you knew what was put into your food..you wouldn't eat anything!!

 

[SifuPhil]

Monsanto was the company that ran that nice little scam, as I recall - they created and sold GMO seeds, and the only pesticide that would work with them was, surprisingly enough, their own Round-Up (glyphosate) ...

And we all know how healthy Round-Up is.

 

[Davey Jones]

If you read the labels on all the foods you buy and eat and cannot understand any of the ingredients in the food then its safe to eat...................I think.