Bioengineered foods, yes or no?
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Pros and cons of GMO foods: Health and environment
There are various pros and cons of genetically modified foods (GMOs) Learn what the research says about the effects of GMO foods on human health and the environment.
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I have a family to feed, and with the cost of food these days, I can't be bothered to look at ingredients. I have a pretty strict, if it's not on special we aren't buying it rule.
Verifying ingredients in what we eat is a luxury I just can't afford. That's something the privileged have time and money to do.
As long as it is semi healthy, not empty calories, and is cheap, I'm good with that.
90% of foods in the grocery store is prepared or processed foods...
Gmo is everywhere... just look at the difference in fruits from the 80's to today... it has all been genetically sliced and created for the products we have on the shelves today...
Even our farmers are forced to buy gmo seeds to plant their crops with... seeds designed no to produce it's own seeds so the farmers have to buy more every year because surprise, surprise, they can't just harvest and keep some for the next years crops...
Only way your avoiding that is ORGANIC foods charged 3-4 times more than the gmo counterpart...
And have you tried feeding kids health food... it's damn neer impossible in todays market... it's hard enough to steer them away from the sugar filled crap on the shelves, and sugar is a worse situation in todays world than gmo is...
Not made easy that almost every snack for school has sugar as a base, and peanuts not being allowed in school. (For good reason peanut allergies, I'm not disputing that.) means sending your kid with the same fruits in their lunchbag they refuse to eat, or buying the processed foods they will eat. And then the same trap the expencive snacks being the kind that would pass your ingredients list check, that cost 5 times the items that go on special.
Healthy eating is an insanely pricy venture. Junkfood is rediculously cheaper next to health food.. and who has the time or patience for cooking these days.. It's a chore that no one has time for in a working family any more.
These days I just skip fresh veggies and buy frozen, because they go bad before anyone is even willing to sample any. It's money spent on items that will go in the garbage more likely than ever be eaten.
I don't dispute your thoughts on healthy food or avoiding gmo... i have tried it.. and more food found it's way into the garbage (yes I'm awful and don't compost, it just attracts bugs, another problem i don't have time for) and put myself into an insane debt trying to feed my family the right way on a barely higher than minimum wage job as a single parent. Now i pay so much in intrest rates to the bank trying to do everything the right way for my family back then i barely tread water trying to maintain it now. And had to throw all the standards out the window.
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