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发帖数: 472 | 1 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/06/geneticall
Some quotes from the article:
As I write these words, I know that some readers will dismiss them. Many are
thoroughly convinced that there is a conspiracy afoot to suppress the news
that GMOs are destroying our health. They are not interested in what science
has to say, if it contradicts their preconceived ideological position. But
I urge those who are interested in learning more to take a look at Nathaniel
Johnson's frightfully smart series of articles on GMOs in the online
environmental publication Grist.
Johnson, a green journalist in good standing and no corporate shill,
concludes, after exhaustively combing through the science, that genetically
modified foods are safe. Or as safe as anything is nowadays. He says:
"I'm much more comfortable feeding my daughter Bt corn than corn sprayed
with organophosphates, that's for sure."
There are a whole lot of dangers out there. People are becoming obese in
record numbers from quaffing refined foods and sugary drinks. Diabetes rates
are soaring. Heart disease, osteoporosis, even certain types of cancer are
on the rise, arguably at least in part because of our nutrient poor diets.
But nobody has yet demonstrated that GMOs make us sick.
I also interviewed Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and public health
at New York University who is known as an outspoken critic of America's
food system. She told me:
"I'm trained in molecular biology and have a hard time thinking that [GMOs]
will make people sick."
What Nestle worries about are not GMOs, so much as the chemical-intensive
farming methods used to grow them. |
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