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Couldn’t have said it better, so . I understand that GMOs aren’t likely to be directly harmful to eat, but the longer-term effects on the wider ecosystem is the real (and thoroughly not studied nor understood) concern.
I didn’t want to go into “one health” or “ecosystemic health is human health” concepts because I felt it would derail the conversation, but I think they’re important to take into account.
I think it is fundamentally eurocentric to consider that the agricultural and food systems in which one lives aren’t deeply linked to one’s wellbeing, and that the indiscriminate use of GMOs couldn’t have an effect on that.
There’s alot of specific ways specific GMOs suck and of course Monsanto gets the wall for shit like round up and the abuse of termination genes (great for research, terrible for farmers)
But so often the protesters are out against something like a scientific research project on soil redmediation, or of course the Golden Rice debacle.
this is all pretty new to me tbh, are we getting harmful levels of exposure just from eating produce or is this more about acute exposure?
