As for me, I am sick to death of the GM and organic food crazes, so I welcome UN with open arms. And I am likewise sore from all the quackery about vitamins and how we should swallow them by handfuls. Bollox. Vitamins will not cure you, and if you get as much as twice the recommended amount of some of those vitamins, you will have negative symptoms. Overdose on thrice the regular amount, and you will have a medical condition. Yet so few actually know about this...
My parents were a part of those who bought into all this BS. my mother would try to shove those demonic pills down our throats, of every vitamin, herb, mineral, and similar detritus. Then it turned out my father was suffering from an overdose of B6 and B12, with among all the other symptoms, his nervous system was being destroyed. And he did not even take the vitamin supplements. His stubbornness for once actually did him some good. Ever since then, my mother has been more careful, but she still advocates the force-feeding of echinacea and Vitmain C to cure illnesses or prevent swine flu. God, I loathe the ignorance.
Thankfully, my parents are very educated, both with two master's degrees, but their understanding of chemistry and biology is simply embarrassing.
So anyway, what is wrong with GM or cloned meat? Are the "bad genes gonna get in your stomach and do bad things" as one college student once explained to me (I struggled to contain either laughter or tears)?
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