I sure did.TexasBred":2h9adkov said:Banjo":2h9adkov said:You are right... if you walk up to most people and asked if they know what GMO is they would just look at you like what that?whatisgmo":2h9adkov said:I am part of the 80% that do not know, even more disturbing to me is the fact that the 20% that think they know, are in conflict with each other over what gmo actually means. Please explain. TIA
I asked a friend of mine just yesterday while having lunch if she knew what GMO meant and she said no. Then I said genetically modified foods then she understood and said yes I have. Then we started talking about the whole labeling thing. She said of course I would want it labeled...I wouldn't buy it if i knew it had all that done to it.
Your question above about what it means....just google it there is plenty of info on it.
Did you then explain to her exactly how it was genetically modifed and why?? A search will give you a lot of "hypothesis"...nothing more.
One more thing .....this I heard from a biochemist quite some time ago, is that when you slice open a gene and insert an enzyme or another gene to produce a certain outcome.....you have to remove something first, you don't just go in and add this or that, so when you take something out of the plant which may be seemingly insignificant you no longer have a whole food....it is a deficient food source. Just like refined white flour,white sugar, white rice, they are no longer whole foods. Do you die on the first bite? No, but over time its detrimental to anyones health.
So what about cattle......If GMO corn and soybeans is as healthy as anything ever grown shouldn't cattle on feed be as healthy as ever or more so? They may be where your at, but not around here. Back in October some of the guys at the local stockyards recommended I wait until November or Dec. to sell some more feeder cattle because the market was getting weaker due to too many cattle dying in these feedlots, blaming it on the up and down weather temps. These are cattle that have "had all their shots" I think the cattles immune system is weakened.