Wednesday, May 15, 2013
What Are We Eating?
During our family Mother's day brunch, I started an interesting conversation with my uncle about regulating use of pesticides and other food regulations such as organically grown, conventionally grown and the use of GMOs. He brought up the point that it is difficult to convince people not to buy produce grown with GMOs because from the outside these produce items appear to be healthier than organically grown or conventionally grown products. In reality, these "healthier" looking products are bigger and "better" because their genetics have been altered to grow more profusely. What do these alterations do to our bodies? But some people may not want to take the time to read the labels on what they're buying, even if they are aware that these chemicals can be bad for our health. Other people may think that because they ate the food and did not get sick immediately, there are no lasting effects. My uncle suggested I watch the documentary Food Inc. as it discusses what we are really eating today. I have found a website where the film can be viewed at no charge for anyone interested in viewing it: http://documentaryaddict.com/Food+Inc-2174-documentary.html
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Another problem with these intensive producing GMOs is that they are often much cheaper than conventional varieties and therefore more appealing in that way. I have not read enough convincing studies to say GMOs are good or bad but my intuition says it's probably a little of both and it is likely some are worse than others and some are no worse than conventional plants. For instance I have read about some GMOs that are engineered to naturally produce pesticides which means the pesticides are inside of the plant itself and it doesn't take a scientist to see that this is likely very bad. Additionally, I have seen Food Inc. and have to say I am disgusted by the business tactics of these companies that are developing these GMOs such as Monsanto.
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