Recent Discussion

This last election I spent a lot of time trying to convince some co workers that the GMO proposition was a good idea. I explained as best as I could that GMO's in our food supply may not be a good idea. They were convinced that the whole thing was getting blown out of proportion. To them, I was not understanding that food was more expensive now than it had been in a long time and if the proposition passed, it was going to get even more expensive. Sometimes I get real frustrated with the people I work with. They get a thought in their head and there's no changing it. One of the angles I tried working was that they used to think that DDT was OK to spray throughout neighborhoods to kill insects. Then, later, that same chemical was determined to cause cancer. For all any of us know, these GMO's that companies like Monsanto are using, may cause the same thing (or worse). At the end of the whole thing, I was able to convince them that first of all, organic IS better than non-organic (when you have the choice) and the other is, wouldn't you at least like to have the choice? I think when they realized that they could still buy the GMO's but it would have to be labeled. They really came around with the "choice" concept. I think we'll find down the road the as natural as possible is best for our food supply.