• MangoCats@feddit.it
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    13 hours ago

    In foods especially, they have substituted corn syrup for sugar, steroid+antibiotic pumped milk and meat for “real” meat (typical market chicken is a travesty these past years), GMO crops sprayed with extreme weed killers and pesticides for simple sun and water grown food. They like to say our food bills are going down in real dollars, but they’re not, not if you buy organic GMO free - which is what most food used to be not so long ago.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      corn syrup

      The only reason they do this is because in the US, corn subsidies make it cheaper. HFCS is essentially exactly the same as sugar to the body. It’s not any more or less unhealthy.

      GMO

      Another overblown fear. Humans have been modifying organisms for millennia. GMO is not inherently harmful. The main harm comes when companies try and make it so farmers have to purchase seed from them for every crap. That’s not harmful to eat. That’s harmful for our food supply.

      extreme weed killers and pesticides

      These all easily wash off, and you need to be washing your fruit and veg because they are dirty.

      It’s trivial to research this for yourself. Stop listening to idiots on youtube trying to sell you supplements and lying to you about these things.

      There are problems and concerns, but these are not them.

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        7 hours ago

        These all easily wash off, and you need to be washing your fruit and veg because they are dirty.

        Keep telling yourself they wash off and have no effects. Then call me from the oncology ward.

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        8 hours ago

        People scared of genetically modified foods need to take a good look at vegetable and fruits. You think bananas and watermelons always looked like that? Hell, I’d say most have something going on to make them grow bigger and faster…

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          7 hours ago

          My main objection to GMO are the ones that enable them to bathe our food crops in Roundup and similar.

          Selective breeding is one thing, chemical engieering to make your food resistant to poision that kills all other plants? Sounds like something I’d rather not participate in the beta testing of, thanks.

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            7 hours ago

            Mexican vs US corn is a very clear example of natural farming vs industrial. I’d prefer to pay triple for corn that has diversity in its nutritional elements instead of a monocrop with maximum calories for minimum price.