There was another documentary about allergies around the world, which was done partially in France and Japan. In France they eat tons of "synthetic foods" among other things (as in literally everything is fake and has sugar in it, so complains my Danish friend who lives there), and in Japan they've replaced huge amounts of traditional wooden stuff with modern western, concrete buildings.
Apparently once you replace dirt roads with concrete, the pollen can't dissolve into the ground and get diffused - so where does it go? Into your body, or just sitting there on the ground and in the air, in amounts way more than normal even if you can't see it. When you stop using traditional, wooden houses that are made for the air to pass through, you live in a house with stuffy air where all the possible chemicals/everything just get trapped. Your body can't handle this as well, so you end up with a higher population of people who have health problems, asthma, allergies. (I read that it's similar with asthma - when you live in a dusty, moldy, cramped house or whatever your kids are more likely to get it, and the longer they live there the more likely they are to be stuck with asthma all their lives).
Then there's plastic. You know how plastic melts really easily? You know how it's porous? This means it's the worst material to put food, especially warm food, into because the plastic "gets into" your food. Apparently this can happen even if the food is cold but it's increased when it's warm. So why the hell are we using it for all our food packaging and storage containers? Most fabrics have plastic in them these days too. Oh look, our toothbrushes and baby toys are made of plastic.
So, everything that I see points to that we can only deviate from nature to a certain extent and past that we're completely ruining both our health and the environment. All my common sense and knowlege of 80's and 90's scifi (; D) points to that if even mere condensing and extracting of foods is too non-natural for our bodies, then genetically modified foods are going to end up being even worse. I heard that GMO corn is much worse for you than normal corn (though I haven't gone looking it up), so why would it be any different for ex. GMO grapes or chickens?
And why genetically modify food anyway? We've existed for thousands of years on what we have. We don't actually need stuff like bananas that don't have seeds in them. We don't actually need tomatoes that don't rot for five months. We don't even need MORE food because we (apparently??) already produce more than enough food - it's just that the food we have isn't used efficiently.
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Date: 2015-09-13 10:59 pm (UTC)Apparently once you replace dirt roads with concrete, the pollen can't dissolve into the ground and get diffused - so where does it go? Into your body, or just sitting there on the ground and in the air, in amounts way more than normal even if you can't see it. When you stop using traditional, wooden houses that are made for the air to pass through, you live in a house with stuffy air where all the possible chemicals/everything just get trapped. Your body can't handle this as well, so you end up with a higher population of people who have health problems, asthma, allergies. (I read that it's similar with asthma - when you live in a dusty, moldy, cramped house or whatever your kids are more likely to get it, and the longer they live there the more likely they are to be stuck with asthma all their lives).
Then there's plastic. You know how plastic melts really easily? You know how it's porous? This means it's the worst material to put food, especially warm food, into because the plastic "gets into" your food. Apparently this can happen even if the food is cold but it's increased when it's warm. So why the hell are we using it for all our food packaging and storage containers? Most fabrics have plastic in them these days too. Oh look, our toothbrushes and baby toys are made of plastic.
So, everything that I see points to that we can only deviate from nature to a certain extent and past that we're completely ruining both our health and the environment. All my common sense and knowlege of 80's and 90's scifi (; D) points to that if even mere condensing and extracting of foods is too non-natural for our bodies, then genetically modified foods are going to end up being even worse. I heard that GMO corn is much worse for you than normal corn (though I haven't gone looking it up), so why would it be any different for ex. GMO grapes or chickens?
And why genetically modify food anyway? We've existed for thousands of years on what we have. We don't actually need stuff like bananas that don't have seeds in them. We don't actually need tomatoes that don't rot for five months. We don't even need MORE food because we (apparently??) already produce more than enough food - it's just that the food we have isn't used efficiently.