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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:16AM (#9452017)
Resorting to authority is a weak argument. There's logic and history as well - like the history of nobody ever got ill from GMOs. Or the logic of, we've massively altered wild foods for millennia and had no issues; why is it different to do it in the lab?

But instead we have populist fear holding sway in all those countries instead.

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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by gregd on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:25AM (#9452104)
There are an increasing number of studies listing the harmful effects of glyphosate (Roundup) poisoning. So saying that "nobody ever got ill from GMOs" is patently false.

http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416

http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/04/27/dr-swanson-gmos-and-r...

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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @03:34PM (#9454612)
Conflating the herbicide with the crop. GMOs are only tangentially involved here. Roundup is used on lots of crops, including non-GMO crops.
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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by gregd on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @04:29PM (#9454952)
Monsanto specifically makes genetically modified seeds (seeds they sell and have patented) to withstand Roundup (an herbicide they sell). That is the antithesis of being tangentially involved.
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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by filoeleven on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @10:06AM (#9452403)
> nobody ever got ill from GMOs.

See this 1996 study: Identification of a Brazil-nut allergen in transgenic soybeans. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8594427

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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @03:35PM (#9454621)
So, those soybeans were nearly as allergenic as Brazil nuts? What's your point?
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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by DanBC on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @03:45PM (#9454677)
Something containing soya isn't labled as containing brazil nuts. Since parent is replying to someone who says "no one ever got ill from eating a GMO" it seems a fair enough, and obvious, point.
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Re:Chipotle Says Adios to GMOs, as Food Industry Strips Away... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @04:20PM (#9454899)
This wasn't a case of food becoming toxic due to an unforeseen chemistry stemming from genetic tinkering. They put the albumin in the bean. Albumin has a well-known effect on those sensitive to it. Nothing surprising here. They could just as well have cooked the beans with some albumin.

This is also obvious, to tell the truth.

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