- RE:The Ever-Changing History of “Healthyâ€
- June 13, 2011 04:23 PM
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you aren’t genetically altering the DNA of an organism if you are putting a chemical pesticide/herbicide of the crop. genetic modification takes place in a lab, and then the genetically modified seed is planted just like with regular crops. the crops grow just like normal plants, but display the characteristics of whatever genes were spliced into their DNA, whether that is resistance to bugs, or taller plants, or a particular color.
if anything, pesticides/herbicides are gonna fall under the auspices of artificial chemical/toxin ingestion. a lot of the chemicals that are applied during farming are stored in the skin and fruit of the produce, and we ingest them when we eat. washing can take some of residues off the outer layer of skin, especially if you use soap, but won’t get all of them out of the inner layers.who knows what affect this is having on us and whether or not this is contributing to cancer or other degenerative diseases. we probably won’t know for a few more decades, but hopefully someone is doing some sort of longitudinal cross-reference study on this stuff.
are we trying to create categories for this?