The Truth about GMOs

“Natural” food activists say: Stop eating genetically-modified foods!

They're wrong.

GMO foods are safe. They don’t, as claimed, “cause cancer.” Over the last couple decades, cancer is down and lifespans are up.
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In the video above, I debate the issue with Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association.

[lake]

Have we figured out the issue of patenting GMO foods yet? What I don't want to see is a world where all crops are IP of Monsanto or any other major corporation, making subsistence farming or gardening a crime unless you pay the licensing fees for growing their patented GMO crops.

[jonbar]

I had a business teacher in college that only gave A's to students that used the word organic in their final project. I got an F because my project was a business that took spent nuclear fuel and refine it to be reused and sold back to the nuclear power plant. Her reasoning was that my project was "bad for the environment".

[cocosear]

Dr. Berg and stossel need to have a debate

[godcreated]

We grow our own vegetables organically and the taste is very different

[juan]

The poor people are always the ones paying the Price

[knightwatcher]

Respect to the interviewee for actually going in to the office to talk face-to-face with Stossel

[draymanil]

GMOs are perfectly safe. People should be concerned with the chemicals used on organic crops

[killerhz]

There's a difference between certified "organic" and appropriately labeled. He's generally wrong about nutrition in foods. Chickens fed gmo soy feed in CAFOs are less nutrient dense than free range birds. They're a lot healthier and happier to boot. Joel Salatin talks about this in his books.

[ryanlucas]

There's a lot of confusion around "GMO" because it's such a broad category. If you look into how RoundUp ready corn was made tho, you'll understand why people don't want to eat it.

[rtlarkin]

The failure of golden rice is a modern tragedy. At the same time, Farmers with legacy crops being sued out of business by a GMO producer is an equal tragedy

[evanschneider]

She calls him ignorant then get mad when he starts “name calling”

[sadsweet]

Give people the information and let them make decisions for themselves. I, for one, would like to know what is in my food, and believe that is a basic right. Take MSG, for instance. Label it as such, not hidden under a dozen different names, and let us decide for ourselves. If you want to consume it, fine, and if you don't, that's fine too. Just let us know. Same with genetically modified foods. Just let us know. Don't hide it, and don't tell us what's GOOD for us.

[mikerevendale]

The bottom line is that we have every right to know the origin, and ingredients, in our food. I wonder how many people understand that due to the efforts of the dairy industry that "natural" sweeteners, such as HFCS, can be added to milk WITHOUT mentioning that fact on the ingredient list? Last I heard they were pushing to be able to covertly add artificial sweeteners as well! That fact gives me every reason to distrust the FDA...

[joeh]

This just makes me more glad I live on a small farm doing the homestead life. 90% of the food my family eat comes off my land.

[jeradblazek]

I usually like and agree with Stossel. And as far as nutrition values, he may be correct, I've never done the research.
However, once a crop has been GMO by a company, they patent those strains. To me, patenting crops can become very dangerous to someone who wants to grow legacy crops or foods. And also puts us all at the mercy of the companies that control the patents.

[johnpatrick]

I remember when scientists said smoking was not addictive or dangerous. Lots of scientists and the govt have said different drugs were safe and effective until people got crippled or died from them. Science is used to please the hands that pay for it.

[stoneyd]

John didn't say much about pesticides. The Department of Health and Human Services does annual reporting on carcinogens. There are definitely carcinogenic substances in the food chain out there.

[javiervasquez]

This people against gmos are like flat earthers.

[grantponciano]

The difficulty of finding low sugar and low sodium foods.
Now that's an issue worth discussing.

[eciesz]

I think it completely fair to put truth in labeling and allow individuals to decide for themselves.