Food

In the movie "Future of Food," it discussed and showed how we as humans have been genetically altering plants for the last thirty years from a point of view skewed towards it's negative affects. This is just insane to me, as a dork who watches educational learning constantly, I really would have to say humans have been on a quest to alter plants and to preserve food ever since the first one was born. Corn is a gift to us from our ancestors of Mexico who carefully selected certain phenotypes with special characteristics from their fields and through cross breeding of these already different specimens they were able to create hybrid plants that we recognize as corn today. Corn's lineage is one that began at the hands of man, and now this movie is going to say we can't genetically alter something that was genetically altered a thousand years ago. That's ignorant and a ill prepared argument. The mass population might not know the facts I just laid out, but I do, and anyone else can that wants to find out if I am full of it can look it up themselves via Google. I just can't stand someone who's an idiot and can't realize their house is glass but keeps throwing stones. What are they the police of plant genetics? Do they realize that one kernel of corn is broken down into seven different substances that all are used in everyday life and more then likely found in the very same medium used to broadcast their messages of ignorance. Yes, steroids, in livestock has had negative effects on society's health. But where do we win, do we not have humongous animals for the fact we get more meat cheaper and more people can eat if it is cheaper. So do we have hungry people who can't afford good food or do we relatively safe food and no one hungry. Catch - 22, pick your poison type deal.

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