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Can you name one item at an organic grocery store that was eaten by modern humans even 50000 years ago?

• sbenitoj 7y ago
  Grass fed cows are about as close as it gets
• DVassallo 7y ago
  Yes: meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts... Quite a lot. It doesn’t have to be 50000 years. For example: I trust that drinking cow milk won’t kill me even though it hasn’t been common for long. Can’t say the same for GM food.
  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    > Yes: meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts... Yes, but if you zoom out to categories that broad, GM food still fits within them. GM foods are not any less like foods eaten tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago than anything else we eat.
    • DVassallo 7y ago
      The same was said for meat-fed cows and trans fats. Turned out their consumption had fatal consequences.
      • dragonwriter 7y ago
        > The same was said for meat-fed cows and trans fats. Meat fed cows and trans fats were products of the same relatively (compared to both the inherent nature and existing regulatory framework requiring proof of safety of novel food element of and faced by GMOs on the former case, and the latter of those in the latter case) uncontrolled evolution of food supply that characterizes the long history of “safe” food against which GMOs are contrasted.
        • DVassallo 7y ago
          I’m not sure what you mean, but there is no proof of safety for GMOs. No evidence of harm is not evidence of no harm. The only adequate test is the test of time, and testing on the global population is highly irresponsible.