The human body often reacts to proteins. It has to disassemble them to get at the amino acids and other elements that make them up. Some proteins the
body will react poorly to, for example many people react poorly to gluten and other similar proteins, or to dairy. There are different kinds of
biochemical reactions. Some are the official 'allergy' (e.g. bloat/hives) and some are other kinds of reactions which may include some degree of that
but may also have other effects (rashes and asthma and allergies are common protein-reactions that many people don't realize). Low-level 'reactions'
like mild inflammation can contribute to tons of diseases which people would think they got "just because." Like cancer, and other things.
GMO can take pieces of protein from a fish and a tomato and mix them into corn. And then add some elements including chemicals, that allow the plant
to absorb (...the plant you eat...) massively more toxic chemicals without dying (such as bug killer). The human body then gets this new protein and
other elements, which in the history of human evolution the body has never seen anything like of course, so is unlikely to have everything in place
for recognizing and dealing with.
How it react is: "Nobody knows." Because GMO seed sellers prohibit any testing, and they basically own the loyalties of the regulating agencies, who
see no need to require that for the sake of human health either. There has been only one test done and the results were not healthy at all, but I
don't have the ref/link so never mind. The real issue is that it makes 300 million people in the USA "lab rats" for the chemical experiment of a
mercenary global corporation.
I could go on about how we already are with modern gluten grains but never mind. Most of the rest of the 1st/2nd world countries have outlawed
Plant breeding is different. It is more like when two people who are both very beautiful marry and have beautiful children, as opposed to just
randomly breeding with all us homelier mucks. :-) In the plant world there's lots of details that botanical science can flesh out about the qualities
of a plant. Until now, we've been stuck with "eyeball and taste-bud observation" and of course some obvious observations about growth. It often takes
a really long time, many seasons or many years even, to try and get just the right combination of things.
But newer science is making our ability to look at those details in a plant much better and faster. So now we are better able to see just which plant
is "the most beautiful" according to the desire, and then breed that with the other most-beautiful plant according to the desire, so their babies are
really gorgeous. And it doesn't take us many seasons or years to figure it out.
By contrast, if our 'human breeding' were GMO, it would be a woman implanted with an embryo that mixed human, horse, shark, and two kinds of silicon
objects, into a new kind of mutant abomination. Sure, it is probably a very lovable abomination with many fine qualities... But since its makeup is
not actually native to our evolutionary experience, even carrying the child could have weird or dangerous effects on the mother. When it's born, it is
classified as an animal not a human, and we eat the mutant. Ergh. Doesn't seem very healthy... but who knows, without testing?
29-1-2014 by RedCairo because: (no reason given)