Yet another GMO thread

[easter bunny]

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What makes apples turn brown? One word: oxidation. It's the chemically active ingredients combining with oxygen. The only way to keep an apple from turning brown is to remove those ingredients and make it chemically inert. It sounds like a great idea, especially if you sell apples. The problem is that what you end up with is no longer an apple that soaks up free radicals and keeps the doctor away, but rather a lump of nutritionally worthless carbohydrate.

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The tearless onion of your dreams? or the chemically inert - stripped of its natural antimicrobial value - onion of the pharmaceutical industry's dreams?



There seems to be a lot of effort being put into creating nutritionally worthless food lately. Meanwhile the number of people suffering from obesity keeps rising, almost as if their bodies aren't getting enough of something, and have to compensate by taking in more food.

Medicinal plants may be defined as any plant that can be put to culinary or medicinal use and include those we associate with, orthodox drugs such as fox glove and opium poppy, as well as everyday plants, such as garlic1.We shall not forget that all drugs of the past were substances with a particular therapeutic action extracted from plants. More and more researchers find that food and their individual constituents perform similar fashion to modern drugs and sometimes better without the dreaded side effects2. The use of herbs and medicinal plants as the first medicines is a universal phenomenon. Every culture on earth, through written or oral tradition, has relied on the vast variety of natural chemistry found in healing plants for their therapeutic properties2.



The onion is one of the oldest cultivated vegetables in history. It is thought that bulbs from the onion family have been utilized as a food source for Millennia. Onion consists of its herbaceous plant part and its edible bulb part. It is probably a native to southwestern Asia3.The leaves are bluish –green and hollow. The bulbs are large, fleshy and firm. There are three main varieties- white, red and purple skinned4.The relative pungency of onion has both genetic and environmental components. Sulphur compounds in onions have also been shown to be anti-inflammatory both by inhibiting formation of thromboxanes and by inhibiting the action of platelet-activating factor (PAF). Thiosulfinates condition anti-thrombotic benefits, including antioxidant activity5,6, reduced serum cholesterol and enhance in vitro platelet activity 7. This later effect is important for cardiovascular health by reducing the probability that platelets aggregate in the blood, a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.8 Hence, thiosulphinates found in onion have been shown to inhibit in-vitro platelet aggregation9,10.



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[Romero]

I truly believe GMO foods are all about profits and not about making food better. The promises of higher nutrition and yields, and no contamination and no resistance have been proven false.



A GM apple may not brown but it still ages. We're trying to pretend that foods aren't already perfect the way they are.

[easter bunny]

Of course it's not all bad. If they add fish genes then the fruits and veggies from overseas will be able to swim here on their own.

[Anonymous]

I truly believe GMO foods are all about profits and not about making food better. The promises of higher nutrition and yields, and no contamination and no resistance have been proven false.



A GM apple may not brown but it still ages. We're trying to pretend that foods aren't already perfect the way they are.

You are truly ignorant if you are that ideological. GMO foods are neither bad nor good. Case by case is how rational people view it. The science can be beneficial to man kind and it will only get better.

[Anonymous]

Apples that never go brown will never be in my lunch.

[Anonymous]

Apples that never go brown will never be in my lunch.

I won't be buying any either. However, that doesn't mean the technology cannot be useful.