Nothing new to write about but I ran across this article I had open in my browser but didn’t get around to reading.
Happy Genetically Modified Thanksgiving.
And The Comments.
I had some European friends who went on and on about GM foods and the evils therein. What was not apparent to me was just how those foods were slowly killing me.
As I walk through the grocery store and witness representative examples of celery from “organic” vs. “non-organic” (???) sources, without exception the stuff outside of the organic display is healthier looking, larger, and cheaper.
Every argument had fear oozing from it, yet none of the arguments got any closer than saying “We just don’t know what these things will do to us.”
Is that the best argument there is?
Who here thinks drinking gasoline is a good idea?
Ok, how about tobacco?
How about carbon tetrachloride, arsenic, asbestos, and DMSO mixed with trace amounts of pesticides? Fen-phen?
All those things are recognized as being bad for you because… they are.
But genetically modified food? If we stop using the expression “Frankenfood” and actually try to point to the stacked up bodies of people who have keeled over, do we come up with much? There’s warnings all over gasoline, model cement, methylene chloride, lead, mercury, and methanol. Pretty obvious in those cases.
Meanwhile there have been cases of entire warehouses full of “genetically modified” corn remaining locked up in the midst of starving countries because of the dangers they present.
I’d be willing to bet though that the people starving to death would rather take their chances.
How about DDT? The actual arguments made against it were not as rigorous as you’d hope they’d be (far from conclusive) and yet it has been banned worldwide. The results? Millions upon millions of people have died of malaria.
Note: If you are interested in the DDT debate but fall on the opposite side of the fence, go read this article first, then politely initiate a dialogue. Nasty treatment will get you banned faster than a liberal can whip out someone else’s checkbook.
Pretty safe bet that those people would have appreciated a little more DDT in their environment, too.
Would I eat a bunny-rabbit that had jellyfish genes spliced into it’s DNA so it glowed in the dark in an eerie green fashion?
Oh hell yes. I’ll barbecue it’s green-glowy ass in molasses.
What about the hybrid of a turkey, a jellyfish, and an ass? Would you vote him for president? Oops. Guess we already did that. Europe and the liberals here in the US loved that.
(yes, that’s a cheap parting shot)
I just went through this same discussion with an acquaintance recently.
Long story short – just as you say. All fear, and no bodies.
Like the DDT crap, AGW, species extinctions, etc, ad nauseum – we can thank our ever-vigilant MSM and helpful local libtard for the panic and bullshit.
‘Goo! I put a notated link in the posting as soon as I saw you commented – Steven Milloy articulating a 100-point article regarding DDT. Here it is for your convenience… http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html
My answer to them:
“What doesn’t and hasn’t killed me makes me stronger.”
Damn busybody fucktards….
Lately I’ve had cause to chafe at all sorts of limitations in our country – up to and including: seat-belt laws, helmet laws, war on drugs, war on tobacco, gun laws, Janet Napolitano’s “Fondles-for-Flights Foundation” … The list can go on and on, but all the things that protect us from ourselves rather than teach us to take responsibility for ourselves.
As long as my neighbor doesn’t ask me to pay for his vegetative state I don’t care whether he wears a helmet or not on a motorcycle. As long as the guy two blocks down doesn’t misuse his weapons I don’t care if he has thirty AK-47′s. I don’t care if the grocer is high as a kite as long as he doesn’t drive while altered.
Sheesh, people. Use some common sense. Take care of yourself and take care of others, but don’t ask the gov’t to do it for you.
We’re wasting so much money babysitting.
It’s not about protecting anyone or making any lives better. It’s about enlarging the pockets and egos of the rulemakers who consider themselves intellectually superior beings and the rest of us just cattle.
It’s about justifying their elitism and all the privation for thee but not for me bullshit they throw around. They don’t care if the third world countries starve or die to disease that should have been eradicated as long as they can bask in their superiority and their smug see we told you so-s, correct or not.
State of Fear by Crichton is one of the better takedowns of the anti-gm/anti-progress/dirt hut crowd that I’ve read, fictional or not.