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More Miscellaneous Rambling
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My daughter went to high school with a Mexican girl who gave up food for Lent. True story. I gotta believe she drank a lot of smoothies and such, but heck if I know.
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Does anybody know of any good, balanced books on the GMO food debate? I read about it online, and it's almost like Hudge and Gudge are facing off in a sort of schizophrenic battle: Big Corporate has combined with Big Education to concoct studies that say GMO foods are fine, while Socialists ag-types want Big Government to shut down GMO production. Big Corporate dismisses the anti-GMO people as nuts, while the anti-GMO people allege Big Corporate is corrupt . . . while wanting Big Government to shut them down, which, of course, is like asking a boss from one Mafia family to kill the boss of another Mafia family: absent some really compelling reason, it ain't gonna happen because they're far more partners in corruption than adversaries. And if it does happen, it's only because of a corrupt purpose.
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I strongly lean in favor of non-GMO food. I don't trust Big Corporate, the allegations of the non-GMO crowd ring true, and my own experience is that non-GMO food is better for you: if I eat a lot of non-GMO fresh spinach, my appetite is thoroughly squelched in a way it isn't when I eat store-bought spinach. Is it because I eat it fresh (so it doesn't lose a lot of nutrients over the weeks of shipping and sitting on shelves) or because it's non-GMO? Beats me. (And yes, I realize this single gastric anecdote isn't compelling, much less dispositive.)
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Regardless, I think it's asinine to try to outlaw GMO food. Put your evidence out there, insist of honest labeling, and let the consumer decide. I suspect the whole issue of GMOs could provide a fascinating study on the whole Hudge and Gudge issue, along with the reasons the libertarian approach to things works best: if government wasn't so powerful, there would be no reason for the debate to be acidic. You can have your GMOs; I can have my non-GMOs. Monsanto can advertise and produce GMOs; I can advertise and produce my non-GMOs. But both sides want Big Government to shut down or cripple the other, which turns the debate in a nasty direction because, once the government guns come into play, one's survival is at stake.
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Based on random Internet surfing, it appears to me that the Scientific American published one of the best "pro and con" articles surrounding the debate: "The Truth about Genetically Modified Food." I'm sure one side of the debate would say the articles is biased, but based on my scant knowledge, I couldn't tell.