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by dawidw 2055 days ago
That's why I take supplements on daily basis. Once a year I do health check and add supplements till their level is correct.

Besides there is problem with GMO and pesticides. Later on we all have to pay for that with our health.

Ideally would be to have own food from own farm where you decide and control how to treat vegetables.
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colechristensen 2055 days ago
Why would genetic modification to add resistance to a pest or herbicide have anything to do with nutrition?
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OneGuy123 2055 days ago
Because it doesn't work like you think: this does NOT mean that because it's "GMO added resistance" that you don't have to spray it.

No, it's much worse: "added GMO resistance" means that you can SPRAY IT MORE without the plant dying.

So you will actually get a more poisonous product in the end due to more spraying.

They did a very subversive wording manipulation and tricked the people.

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3131s 2055 days ago
With more resistance to pesticides and herbicides, farmers can add more of these substances to plants, and that will incidentally kill other lifeforms in the soil ecosystem that affect the nutritional content of the soil.
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colechristensen 2055 days ago
Resistance to pests, not pesticides. This makes producers use fewer or no pesticides, not more. A naturally occuring pest resistance gene will be copied from one organism to the crop in question.

And the herbicide resistance usually allows for the usage of safer herbicides.

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dawidw 2055 days ago
> This makes producers use [...] no pesticides

Ask yourself: do you have a choice? Are you really able to buy all products for any meal - really, any meal - that they were not treated with pesticides?

Another interesting question: is it possible to buy anywhere (even on the Internet) non-GMO corn? You know, the original one, created by nature which were possible to have 200 years ago?

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colechristensen 2055 days ago
>Ask yourself: do you have a choice? Are you really able to buy all products for any meal - really, any meal - that they were not treated with pesticides?

Yes, absolutely.

It would really depend on what you consider "a pesticide" and if organic alternatives counted and if at that which ones, regardless it is still quite possible, you just have to understand where your food comes from.

> Another interesting question: is it possible to buy anywhere (even on the Internet) non-GMO corn?

Say you're a farmer in the midwest, here's a place to buy non-GMO seed corn to grow on your farm:

https://www.alseed.com/product-category/corn/viking-conventi...

Non-GMO corn is common, the supply chain is very aware if the product is GMO or not.

>You know, the original one, created by nature which were possible to have 200 years ago?

No such thing. Corn/maize has been manipulated by humans for millennia, the wild relative is essentially not recognizable as anything other than an ordinary wild grass species.

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dawidw 2055 days ago
> Yes, absolutely.

> It would really depend on what you consider "a pesticide" and [...]

OK, you're right, I agree here with you 100%.

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dawidw 2055 days ago
Due to GMO you have vegetable much bigger but with the same amount of vitamins and minerals.

So, for example, if new generation fruit is 20% bigger, you're lacking that amount of nutrition in your diet.

And pesticides: if there were healthy for our bodies, we would eat them for our advantages, wouldn't we?

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