Genetically Modified Organisms

[B]

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Do you look up the numbers listed in food ingredients, B?

[B]

Do you look up the numbers listed in food ingredients, B?

What numbers?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Can someone just tell me if I eat GMOs how much will my lifespan shorten? If it is only a couple of years I'm good with that. Seems like a lot of work to seek out non GMOs at my standard grocery store.

[Strat]

Whatever. The entire western united states is gonna burn to the ground this summer.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Whatever. The entire western united states is gonna burn to the ground this summer.

That doesn't answer my question. I live on the east coast and will still be eating GMOs when that happens.

[Strat]

Im more of a farm to table kind of guy

and Ramen. I love Ramen.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Do you look up the numbers listed in food ingredients, B?

What numbers?

Don't they label the additives (colour, flavour, preservative, etc.) with 3 or 4 digit numerical codes over there?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Do you look up the numbers listed in food ingredients, B?

What numbers?

Don't they label the additives (colour, flavour, preservative, etc.) with 3 or 4 digit numerical codes over there?

I could be wrong, but I think here they just have to list the name of it.

[Chris_H_2]

no codes. just words. it makes it easier to read.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

So for the colours, do they actually state things like "Red colour from squashed bugs", etc?

[Norah]

So for the colours, do they actually state things like "Red colour from squashed bugs", etc?

Blue 1, Yellow 5, Red 3, etc, etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_color ... ted_States

[Sgt. Crackpot]

So for the colours, do they actually state things like "Red colour from squashed bugs", etc?

Blue 1, Yellow 5, Red 3, etc, etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_color ... ted_States

My problem with genetically modified food isn't so much the concept itself, but the secrecy and lack of information.

People have a right to information about the source of their food.

Do you look up the numbers listed in food ingredients, B?

What numbers?

[E.H. Ruddock]

So for the colours, do they actually state things like "Red colour from squashed bugs", etc?

Blue 1, Yellow 5, Red 3, etc, etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_color ... ted_States

My problem with genetically modified food isn't so much the concept itself, but the secrecy and lack of information.

People have a right to information about the source of their food.

Do you look up the numbers listed in food ingredients, B?

What numbers?

[McParadigm]

I get you, B.

This whole GMO insanity is exactly why I only eat Sabor de Soledad.

[McParadigm]

I mean I used to eat Mac and Cheese, too, but now I hear they're going to start putting cheese in that stuff.

[B]

I'm too lazy to know what red #2 is made of, but people should be able to look that up online if they want to know. That being said, are these dyes GMOs?

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Some of them are worse if concentrated B, that's my point.

[bart]

Who gives a fuck if someone turned on a gene in a tomato that makes it red and tasteless for the grocery store, or one that makes corn more drought tolerant? But if it's got pesticide? What if we boost the sugar content in carrots? Then people are trying to lose weight, they eat a shit ton of carrots, cuz "hey, these carrots taste great and they're totally vegetables!" Then they gain weight. Fuck!

B, you understand that sugar content is clearly stated on the nutrition facts label on all food, including carrots, right?

[Norah]

classic B