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Anonymous
The problem isn't so much GM foods, but the entire industrial food chain in general, which subverts the natural cycles of life.
Efficiency becomes the focal point as farmers use GM corn to increase crop yields beyond natural levels (necessitating the use of fossil-fuel based fertilizers that harm the environment and deepen our dependence on international oil) and factory farms feed animals highly-processed, non-natural "food" their bodies are not designed to eat (to make them fatter in shorter periods to time) leading to monocultures that are sucesptible to infection, inhumane conditions, and toxic levels of hazardous waste.
From what I hear, it's not pleasant to live anywhere close to an industrial feedlot.
A steer or chicken that follows its natural instincts in acquiring food will be healthier and more nutritious for human consumption, and far less likely to be infected with dangerous parasites or bacteria. When you eat industrial meat, you're basically eating corn grown with fossil fuels.
While industrial food will be cheaper at the supermarket checkout, this price does not reflect the true cost of growing and consuming it (this should be particularly obvious to /fit/ people) as it's generally less nutritious and more environmentally destructive. The only reason the industrial food chain exists is because it is heavily subsidized by the government, and has a higher potential for enormous profit than local/organic farming... if you're a shareholder or politician from a corn-gorwing state.
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