Wat is ggo ? Is dat de nederlandse voor Genetically Modified Organisms ?
Is the asterisk explained anywhere? I see no text on that side of the bag explaining it.
Don’t really understand the fear of GGOs. They can be a solution to some of the problems we are facing regarding climate change. If crops can be tweaked to be more resilient and/or grow in different conditions, then that’s a good thing for global food supply, I would imagine
Since there is almost nothing produced this is just selling the fear. They would actually have a harder time selling human slavery free food.
They should improve the salaries and employment conditions instead. Have they sorted out the supply issues yet?
No GMO and still cheap? So prolly riddled with pesticides? No thx i’ll pass
Lol. As if they can guarantee all their meats and milks are totally gmo soy free.
Ah great now I have to do my shopping somewhere else. GMO/GGO are the future for feeding our world.
GGO/GMO have been crucial in keeping foodstuffs affordable worldwide… increasing yield, reducing the risk of disease… I also think we shouldn“’t reduce our diet to the 10 same crops but still… banning them is hating them is retarded…
And still their carrots are orange, you can buy broccoli and spruitjes, their grains come from high yield variants (that are not natural btw) etc… All of this just because they want bakfiets people to buy there…
Depends what they have been modified to do, some have been modified to tolerate higher loads of pesticides, meaning that the food resulting from those crops will also have a higher load of pesticides. That’s not to say that it’s much different than selective breeding which can also bring out unwanted traits in crops.
Is it bad to support GMO?
I mean, if they can make a plant that needs (almost) no pesticides, isn’t it good for environment and insects like bees?
because they don’t care about telling the truth and the people who get convinced by these lies are not going to do the research to prove them wrong…
all our vegetables and fruits are genetically manipulated, have been four thousands of years
Funny thing is that GGO’s are the best way for us to optimize our agricultural land and thus preserving the few natural reserves and ecological valuable land we still have.
Irrationele vrees is hoe de 21ste eeuw fungeert.
From what I’ve gathered there are two main reasons for the opposition against GGOs:
* There’s a risk that a GGO will completely replace the original crop, thus removing diversity in the ecosystem and in the end possibly making things worse (typically, diversity is a good thing because it makes species more resilient).
* GGOs are typically patented and these patents can (and are) abused. For instance, I think it was Food Inc where it is shown how Monsanto sues farmers that don’t even use their seed, but the wind had blown some on their fields.
Personal opinion time: I think these reasons are valid, however, that doesn’t mean we should just outlaw or vilify any kind of genetic engineering. Some care should be taken.
Gegarandeerd GGO-vrij*
=>
*100% kunnen we niet garanderen
Why? Same people that are idiots about vaccines have really weird ideas about GGOs.
Every product for human consumption in the EU has to be GGO free. So whether you go to Carrefour or to Colruyt,… all the products for human consumption will be GGO free.
By banning the development of GGO’s in the EU we are effectively becoming a biological Bokrijk by the end of this deccade. The fear mongering by the green parties is outright dangerous and will once again be bad for our food prices, competitive position and development.
for the wappies
a lot of fruits are GGO’s , so doesnt make sense
That’s just a hype. Almost every fruit is genetically manipulated. Without this, bananas would be inedible, melons would be toxic, and apples would be small, hard and sour. Carrots are orange because of genetic manipulation, brussels sprouts were created through genetic manipulation, corn (maïze) is edible and yellow through genetic manipulation.
En dan?
Just so everyone knows, the EU has a labelling requirement for food and feed for all food/feed containing gmo crops above 0.9%+- correction factor depending on the crop (correction factor per crop calculated by EU reference labs).
Therefore, a product w/o a label is always considered GMO free even though it might not be (I.e. between 0 and threshold percentage) since labelling in mandatory.
A labelled product will therefore always contain GM % above the threshold (even if the % is 0.01 higher than the e threshold)
The label is only meant as “informed consent” for the user and has nothing to do with safety/etc.
I don’t get the fear of GMO’s. Just regulate. For example, make it illegal for the offspring to be sterile, to avoid market domination by seed producers, enforce strict laws on whatever else might be of concern… we can only benefit from this technology.
Omdat we die rotzooi niet willen?
I can’t speak a word of flamish, what does it says ?
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Wat is ggo ? Is dat de nederlandse voor Genetically Modified Organisms ?
Is the asterisk explained anywhere? I see no text on that side of the bag explaining it.
Don’t really understand the fear of GGOs. They can be a solution to some of the problems we are facing regarding climate change. If crops can be tweaked to be more resilient and/or grow in different conditions, then that’s a good thing for global food supply, I would imagine
Since there is almost nothing produced this is just selling the fear. They would actually have a harder time selling human slavery free food.
They should improve the salaries and employment conditions instead. Have they sorted out the supply issues yet?
No GMO and still cheap? So prolly riddled with pesticides? No thx i’ll pass
Lol. As if they can guarantee all their meats and milks are totally gmo soy free.
Ah great now I have to do my shopping somewhere else. GMO/GGO are the future for feeding our world.
GGO/GMO have been crucial in keeping foodstuffs affordable worldwide… increasing yield, reducing the risk of disease… I also think we shouldn“’t reduce our diet to the 10 same crops but still… banning them is hating them is retarded…
And still their carrots are orange, you can buy broccoli and spruitjes, their grains come from high yield variants (that are not natural btw) etc… All of this just because they want bakfiets people to buy there…
Depends what they have been modified to do, some have been modified to tolerate higher loads of pesticides, meaning that the food resulting from those crops will also have a higher load of pesticides. That’s not to say that it’s much different than selective breeding which can also bring out unwanted traits in crops.
Is it bad to support GMO?
I mean, if they can make a plant that needs (almost) no pesticides, isn’t it good for environment and insects like bees?
because they don’t care about telling the truth and the people who get convinced by these lies are not going to do the research to prove them wrong…
all our vegetables and fruits are genetically manipulated, have been four thousands of years
Funny thing is that GGO’s are the best way for us to optimize our agricultural land and thus preserving the few natural reserves and ecological valuable land we still have.
Irrationele vrees is hoe de 21ste eeuw fungeert.
From what I’ve gathered there are two main reasons for the opposition against GGOs:
* There’s a risk that a GGO will completely replace the original crop, thus removing diversity in the ecosystem and in the end possibly making things worse (typically, diversity is a good thing because it makes species more resilient).
* GGOs are typically patented and these patents can (and are) abused. For instance, I think it was Food Inc where it is shown how Monsanto sues farmers that don’t even use their seed, but the wind had blown some on their fields.
Personal opinion time: I think these reasons are valid, however, that doesn’t mean we should just outlaw or vilify any kind of genetic engineering. Some care should be taken.
Gegarandeerd GGO-vrij*
=>
*100% kunnen we niet garanderen
Why? Same people that are idiots about vaccines have really weird ideas about GGOs.
Every product for human consumption in the EU has to be GGO free. So whether you go to Carrefour or to Colruyt,… all the products for human consumption will be GGO free.
By banning the development of GGO’s in the EU we are effectively becoming a biological Bokrijk by the end of this deccade. The fear mongering by the green parties is outright dangerous and will once again be bad for our food prices, competitive position and development.
for the wappies
a lot of fruits are GGO’s , so doesnt make sense
That’s just a hype. Almost every fruit is genetically manipulated. Without this, bananas would be inedible, melons would be toxic, and apples would be small, hard and sour. Carrots are orange because of genetic manipulation, brussels sprouts were created through genetic manipulation, corn (maïze) is edible and yellow through genetic manipulation.
En dan?
Just so everyone knows, the EU has a labelling requirement for food and feed for all food/feed containing gmo crops above 0.9%+- correction factor depending on the crop (correction factor per crop calculated by EU reference labs).
Therefore, a product w/o a label is always considered GMO free even though it might not be (I.e. between 0 and threshold percentage) since labelling in mandatory.
A labelled product will therefore always contain GM % above the threshold (even if the % is 0.01 higher than the e threshold)
The label is only meant as “informed consent” for the user and has nothing to do with safety/etc.
I don’t get the fear of GMO’s. Just regulate. For example, make it illegal for the offspring to be sterile, to avoid market domination by seed producers, enforce strict laws on whatever else might be of concern… we can only benefit from this technology.
Omdat we die rotzooi niet willen?
I can’t speak a word of flamish, what does it says ?
garandereren?