The wonders of sharing articles on Facebook brought me to read one story regarding a survey done by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics. Their results stated that 80% of Americans support mandatory labels on food that contain - wait for it - DNA.
If I'm not mistaken, DNA is the molecular compound that carries the biological make-up of an organism, and passes such things like traits, diseases, and evolutionary information down to its offspring. It is the fun molecule that (possibly) every educated American had to build from scratch for their biology class at one point or another. From this survey, it is apparent that now people have another thing to fear when making food choices.
Meanwhile, at some bar, there's a man with a beer bottle in hand, after having way too much, that clearly states "[alcohol] impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery". Instead of reading it prior to drinking and thinking, "Ok, I'll wait it out after a few", he winds up stumbling out the door, gets into his car, and t-bones a family of four going out to dinner for the night, and injures, or possibly kills, a couple family members. Apparently, engaging in vehicular homicide is how some people like spend their Friday nights.
My question is: if similar warning labels on widely-known harmful products aren't stopping enough people from harming themselves and others, then why the hell do we need something as insignificant as a warning stating that the product is organic? Also, who the hell even brought this up for debate?
What's a bigger problem is that, if anyone ever read this or seen it on the news a while ago, there was a story about how the government will have their own class of scientific "experts" manage and regulate America's agricultural decisions. In short terms, "scientists" who are in for the money and not for the benefit of all humankind.
So the next time you open up a bag of chocolate cookies, or are about to dive in to the greasy goodness of a burger joint, look up what you're eating. It's cheap, it's wonderful to the taste, but oftentimes is extremely detrimental to your health and hardly ever expressed or made immediately visible. There's a fat compound in potato chips that triggers your brain to want more chips/fat, and it becomes a never-ending cycle. Certain fast-food fries are loaded with sugar and weird-ass chemicals that seem to be fit for cleaning your bathtub. Frozen dinners are loaded with preservatives and will preserve your excess body fat for years to come. Yet people wonder why America is so obese and unhealthy. Our government "experts" allow food manufacturers to get away with poisoning our country, and the one thing that makes headlines regarding health this week is a matter of labeling foods with f***ing DNA in it??
That is where hypocrisy runs amok. Look up what you're eating, people, and educate yourselves instead of being spoon-fed answers you should already know.
All seriousness aside, I would love to see what kinds of Instagram photos there will be if there becomes a DNA-less fad diet. "A plate of DNA-free Earth dirt with a glass of water. #nofilter."
What are some highly chemical/questionable things you've found in your food?
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