The sad truth is above 80% of the food you can find in a U.S. supermarket is transgenic or otherwise called GMO. All sorts of carbohydrate sources - which comprise a huge part of the U.S. diet - from cereals, refined sugars and the base of the american diet: corn fructose. Vegetables and meat that's been grown with also GMO feed has been genetically modified and released to the public without enough testing. One of the consequences is cancer. Cancer grows because the quality of your food, the biotechnology embedded in it and american eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and unsuited for its lifestyle. Research the lobbying between FDA and Monsanto, research the correlation between meat consumption and risk of heart disease and cancer, research the recommended daily intake of fibre and compare it to the average american diet, see the correlation with cancer. There lies the answer.
This article is a lie. Monopolies ALWAYS create complexity (Zero to One - Peter Thiel). Here are what your typical bullshitting articles say:
- Cancer is a living entity, like a virus.
- Cancer is way more complex than we thought!
- Cancer keeps growing and it's unstoppable
- We still don't know how cancer is created
There is certainly no scientific consensus that GMO/transgenic food causes cancer; if anything the community believes it does not. Perhaps we currently have flaws in implementation (e.g., Roundup-ready crops could lead to increased human exposure to the herbicide), but why is GMO itself a problem? Adding genes from harmless cold water fish to harmless standard tomatoes in order to produce cold resistant tomatoes, for example, seems to be a safe procedure. I would love to be pointed to credible studies that contradict my way of thinking about this.
You are right about consensus. But I invite you to investigate how big the cancer industry is in worth/year and historically how it all has been created, and who owns it. Also to study the history of the American food industrialisation. Also to investigate who owns and influences the top media sources in the world. To be clear the point I was trying to make wasn't "GMO is the only cause of cancer" or "Genetical modifications on foods produce cancer". My point is "Current GMO products consumption is one of the contributors to cancer" - I'm not stating how, I'm stating that it has an effect. I know far more about the effects of meat and dairy than I do about GMO. But somewhere to get started would be here:
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-gmos-safe-the-case-of-ro...
(The page has links to all the scientific sources cited)
Start here: https://nutritionfacts.org
I lived this on my own skin with my mum getting cancer. This article has been completely lobbied by the pharmaceutical industry. No doubt.