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11/2/2016 3:58:26 AM
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Misconceptions about agriculture.

1. GMOs are dangerous They aren't 2. Antibiotic use in livestock is unsafe There are things called "withdrawal times" 3. Organic agriculture doesn't use pesticides/herbicides. They do 4. Growth hormones are unsafe They are the exact same hormones the animal produces itself. They can reduce marbling, because they promote muscle growth, not fat growth. That is a quality issue, not a safety one though 5. Grass fed* beef is better than grain fed* By fed, I really mean finished. All cattle grow up on pasture land, and once they reach a certain age, they are sent to a feedlot, where they are fed a ration that has all the nutrients they need. This causes them to put on muscle much faster then if they were only eating grass. Grass finished cattle take much longer to put on enough muscle to be slaughtered. This causes the meat to be if a lower quality, based in the USDA quality grade scale. I don't really get triggered, but agriculture is a topic that is so important to everyone, yet most people don't know anything about it. And that really pisses me off.

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  • Antibiotic use in livestock is dangerous to us. Humans. Why? Well, if you didn't realize bacteria do not make perfect copies of themselves. All it takes is one bacteria to survive the antibiotic to completely destroy that antibiotic, and create a super immune bacteria, which because of practices like giving animals literally living in shit antibiotics so they don't die. Maybe treat the animals in a humane way instead, and not completely -blam!- over everybody else by creating super bacteria that will kill us all. Yeah? Seems reasonable?

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    • For anyone who wishes to claim that GMO's are harmful, please refer to this list of +1,700 scientific studies on the safety of GMO's, of which all come to the conclusion that they are safe. https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ge-crops-safety-pub-list-1.xls After which, please refer to this list of 400 different studies which support the same claim, across all different contexts. http://genera.biofortified.org/viewall.php If you still feel the need to claim that GMO's are harmful, understand that you don't know shit about biology.

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      • While you should have cited sources i do know that a few are valid. Although... it wasnt confirmed but i remember an old medical professor saying that the breast growth hormones (for chicken) affects girls who eat it and what makes women get breasts at younger ages. It is a good or bad thing depending on the person you ask but what are your thoughts on it?

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        • ive seen a bunch of shit about gmo's, farm animals, and vegans because of this one relative, and i swear these vegans are just liberals brainwashing the people. Nothing they say has any value, their protesting has no basis in reality, they think the animals we farm deserve human rights. They went so far as to LITERALLY compare omnivorous people to hitler, wife beaters, murderers, and rapists. Vegans are so F-ing stupid it hurts, and to top it off they think that if the entire world went vegan we would make the world better, despite the massive land development required to create so much vegetation.

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          • Gary Johnson's position on GMO's is part of the reason I'm not voting for him. It's been shown time and time again that GMO's are a perfectly safe alternative to conventional and organic crops, yet Johnson is willing to use the state to force manufacturers to put specific labeling on their products. I would be against that particular legislation even if there was no conclusive evidence about the safety of GMO's, but the fact that he still supports it despite GMO's passing every test makes it even worse.

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            • I love when those who condemn others for denying climate change turn right around and dismiss any evidence showing GMOs are perfectly fine or that nuclear energy is, statistically, the safest and most efficient current source of energy.

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            • If you dislike gmos I guess you dislike just about every editable plant out there.

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            • I don't understand why people think eating GMO shit is dangerous. Unless they give the food genes from a poison frog, what's the problem? It all gets digested and shat out like any other food.

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