Hellobee Boards Topic: How do YOU feel about GMOs?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How do YOU feel about GMOs? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:19:57 +0000 sarac on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433241 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:00:45 +0000 sarac 433241@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @caffeinated: Exactly. People hear the word GMO and they get scared - and usually they don't even know why, they've just been told that GMOs are scary and bad for you and giving you cancer. The legitimate issues really get neglected in the conversation. Freckles on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433187 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:23:37 +0000 Freckles 433187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @sarac: @birdofafeather: I agree with you guys on that one as well. Monsanto is so evil. Freckles on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433182 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:22:26 +0000 Freckles 433182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Thehistoryofus: if you eat any cereal that is not USDA certified organic or specifically says nogmo, your cereal has gm ingredients. Freckles on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433179 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:21:08 +0000 Freckles 433179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @sarac: i believe many people do not understand GMOs as well, and have this idea of frankenfoods, like 5 chicken breasts attached to one another. Many people have this negative view towards GMOs because of the now debunked Seralini study that said that rats died after eating GMO foods. <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22287-study-linking-gm-crops-and-cancer-questioned.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22287-study-linking-gm-crops-and-cancer-questioned.html</a> DH is an agricultural economics professor, and it really upsets him when people keep referring to the above study. So far there are no valid studies that say GMOs are bad for you, but i understand why people are reluctant to eat something when everyone tells you that it is bad. I think GMOs help third world countries, or will at least have the ability to help with easier pest control and higher yields. If you use corn or canola oil, any corn or soy products, you are eating a GM food without knowing it. If you eat ANY kind of processed food, there is likely a GM ingredient in it. It is pretty difficult to avoid GM foods nowadays. yoursilverlining on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433109 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:51:50 +0000 yoursilverlining 433109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ The reason listed by BirdsofaFeather (small farmers being bankrupted) is the big reason I don’t buy GMOs as well. My main philosophy is to try to food source as local and as real as possible; and that gets harder to do the more small farms are put out of business. I don’t support huge agriculture or factory-farming, just like I don’t support WalMart. I don’t think cheaper short-term equals either cheaper long-term or better for the country long-term. (I also don’t support factory-farmed meat because I try to buy humanely raised and slaughtered meat but that’s a different conversation). littlebug on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433106 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:50:23 +0000 littlebug 433106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @birdofafeather: I totally agree that it's a naturally-occurring hybrid, but unfortunately, it would have to be labeled GMO under Prop 37 guidelines. My mom works in the food industry, and her concern with labeling is just that it's hard to decide where to draw the line about what gets labeled. sarac on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433089 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:44:49 +0000 sarac 433089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @birdofafeather: This is the argument against them that I support as well. Monsanto and others are actively working to bankrupt small farmers, and I don't like that. sarac on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433086 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:43:52 +0000 sarac 433086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ As a biologist, I'm pro-gmo. People have a lot of misconceptions and misplaced fears about them that just aren't supported by science. I don't have any problem with the process or the resulting foods. My problem is with the food that ends up soaked with pesticides because of it - those are the ones I avoid. I also have a huge moral issue with patented one generation GMO seeds. But gmo in and of it's self I've got no beef with. birdofafeather on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-433075 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:38:12 +0000 birdofafeather 433075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @littlebug: as far as i understand, a hybrid that occurs naturally isn't what a GMO is. GMOs are literally modified in the lab to be super resistant to pesticides, and to grow huge. the situation you're talking about would be a normal hybrid and has been happening since farming began. as for me and DH, we definitely try to avoid them (along with factory-farmed meats), not because i think that GMOs are a different/bad kind of food at the molecular level, but because of the monopoly that corporations like monsanto have and the huge lobby they represent. it puts small farmers out of business and economically is a bad thing. their practices are not in the interest of sustainability and we're going to run into a situation where we have no variety of foods. Arden on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432933 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:25:23 +0000 Arden 432933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I want to stay far, far away from them. And I do. ladyfingers on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432850 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:38:59 +0000 ladyfingers 432850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Same as @thehistoryofus LazyLightning on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432766 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:47:28 +0000 LazyLightning 432766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Maybe y'all already know this too, but organic doesn't mean pesticide free either (I know this is about GMOs, not organic, but anyway). There are many pesticides that are approved for organic use - REAL ones -- not just animal poo or whatever. Really interesting market, that is. LazyLightning on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432761 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:45:05 +0000 LazyLightning 432761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I honestly don't care either way. I find organic food to generally be half rotten and poor tasting, not to mention being more expensive. I would pay more if it were better food, but it is not. HOWEVER: keep in mind that I live in an isolated area in the middle of the country, in the far north, so there is not a great selection of produce even at the best times of the year. I'll buy whatever isn't brown or bruised and sadly, the organic or 'home grown' or 'unmodified' or 'never preserved' food generally is the bad looking stuff. We don't have trader joes, whole foods, etc. We have a Walmart SuperCenter. ;) Maysprout on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432741 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:28:09 +0000 Maysprout 432741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm not completely against them but am not a fan of a lot of them. For example, one of the most common types is called Roundup Ready, meaning a gene is inserted into corn or soybeans or whatever plant that makes them resistant to the pesticide Roundup. This enables farmers to liberally spray their fields with Roundup, which of course boosts the use of Roundup, but is it really healthy to have our food sprayed with a massive amount of pesticide? littlebug on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432704 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:58:28 +0000 littlebug 432704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I think the thing with GMO is where do you draw the line with what you can't/won't eat? For example, I'm not crazy about hormone-enhanced meats, so I do try to avoid those. But a farmer could plant 2 types of tomatoes right next to each other, and end up with a hybrid type of tomato - technically, that is now considered genetically-modified. Will I eat it? Yes. Should it be labeled GMO? No, I don't think it should. The big push in CA to pass Prop 37 failed, and for now I think that's good. I think you have to consider HOW something's been genetically modified, and right now there's not enough information available for that. mediagirl on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432658 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:15:31 +0000 mediagirl 432658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Honestly? If you hadn't written these posts on them, I wouldn't have heard about them. So, they don't bother me and I'm not concerned about them. T.H.O.U. on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432629 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:47:27 +0000 T.H.O.U. 432629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ This is going to sound lame, but I am against GMO's and would like to avoid them but I don't know how. I heard that basically all kinds of cereal have them! mrsjazz on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432620 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:40:21 +0000 mrsjazz 432620@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Pen: I was watching Nightline last night and you posted about GMOs right after they started a segment on these GMO salmon that are 4x bigger than real salmon and are awaiting FDA approval to be sold to us. Someone on the segment called them Frankenfish. squid on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432464 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:12:22 +0000 squid 432464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Given the track record of things like margarine, artificial sweeteners, olestra, and the like...I'm going to refrain from consuming GMOs as much as possible. HabesBabe on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432456 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:06:16 +0000 HabesBabe 432456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm cheap, so I'm ok with GMOs for now. I'd change if I saw any evidence about them causing harm, but I'm sure the damage would have already been fine by then. runsyellowlites on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432453 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:03:45 +0000 runsyellowlites 432453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Definitely not a fan & trying to move away from them completely! Mrs. Pen on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432449 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:30 +0000 Mrs. Pen 432449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @mrsjazz: no, what is that? mrsjazz on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432434 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:48:33 +0000 mrsjazz 432434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Pen: Are you watching Nightline? Frankenfish! ETA: I'm afraid of GMOs. Mrs. Pen on "How do YOU feel about GMOs?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-gmos#post-432427 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:38:11 +0000 Mrs. Pen 432427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm not a fan and won't eat anything that has GMOs. My motto is that food is best as close to it's original grown state as possible :) obviously GMOs not close at all to a food's original state :) But I know a lot of people see no issue with it, it's a "to each their own" type of situation I suppose. How do you feel about GMOs?