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A comment on Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents. Parent comment

Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by 0xfeba on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:54AM (#14106883)
> Food we've grown + consumed has a multi-millennium history of being safe

The food we consume now has little resemblance past a visual one (and even not that in some cases), to food of the past.

Time-tested? Only in the past 60 years or so have we actually been able to begin to understand the effects of any food, natural or GMO. That our ancestors didn't keel over immediately after consuming these "same" foods does not mean they are anymore "safe to consume" than GMO foods.

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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by Tycho on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:14PM (#14109517)
> That our ancestors didn't keel over immediately after consuming these "same" foods does not mean they are anymore "safe to consume" than GMO foods.

I think this is the wrongest statement I've ever read on HN.

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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by rhizome on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:44PM (#14109219)
The food we consume now has little resemblance past a visual one (and even not that in some cases), to food of the past.

When did strawberries change?

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Re:Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety i... by lkbm on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:26PM (#14111851)
Looks like we first cultivated "garden strawberries" in 1714[1]. Before that we just had "wild strawberries", which are small and not very sweet. I don't know now they've changed nutritionally (probably more sugar), and I doubt they've changed chemically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry

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