Wasn’t it a march against this kind of stuff last saturday?

[oakfarm]

One thing with sitting at cafes and write is that there’s a lot of babies and their moms on maternity leave at cafes. The other day I couldn’t help but to overhear two mothers. They were anti-vaccine. That’s old news, you already know what that’s about. The new thing I heard them say was that they disliked the standard vitamin D supplement given to babies. They gave the babies other supplements.

Of course they can’t trust midwives and doctors. What does “Big science” know about vitamins? The only one you can trust is some hippy who sells supplements online. All those babies given standard vitamin D supplement will get rakitis. Or maybe they didn’t know what they were talking about.

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[wantedonvoyage]

Yes I should probably know more about it and I do understand that a blanket ban on any kind of this work would be counter-intuitive. That's why I said "It makes me nervous" vs. going out marching about it, because I don't know enough to even have a strident opinion.

I think it could be the round-up ready seeds, yes. IIRC hey do something to the structure to make them more receptive to the glysophates?

I generally trust corporations about as far as I can throw them so even though the effects of round up are still in debate, I pretty much assume that "research" on either side has the outcome it was paid to have. And like you I worry about unintended consequences of the way we produce food.

[cactus_rs]

I don't know much about those off the top of my head (and I'm heading out the door for a run otherwise I would nerd out about this and get sucked down the Google hole). Here's a look at the literature on glysophates (though not the round-up ready seeds specifically): https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/03/16/glyphosate-dangerous-chemical-anti-gmo-bogeyman/

Allowing corporations to operate for maximum profit instead of minimum harm is dangerous no matter what the industry. I'm 100% with you on that.