El enlace que les pondré los dirigirá a un blog de una revista que ganó el permio National Magazine Award for General Excellence. El blog pertenece a Christie Wilcox una científica y escritora de un blog muy interesante que se encarga en desmentir mitos científicos. Ella estudia su post-doctorado en Biología Celular y Molecular en la Universidad de Hawaii. En esta entrada logra desmentir tres mitos de los alimentos orgánicos y su producción .Y la gran conclusión es que es mejor comprar alimentos de granjeros locales y no de alimentos orgánicos que se compran en el supermercado. Todos los datos que da escritora son rotundamente confiables y por otra parte impresionantes. Los mitos que desmiente son: Que los alimentos orgánicos no contienen pesticida , que son más saludables y que ayudan al ambiente.
Es impresionante el enterarse que aún cuando nos están vendiendo un producto orgánico contenga cantidades altas de pesticidas y que cierto tipo de pesticida sea aún más dañino que los pesticidas convencionales. Y aún así se atreven a vendérnoslo, después que leas lo siguiente dudo que pienses que los transgénicos son dañinos para ti y para el mundo ,les comparto este fragmento:
"organic farming practices use less synthetic pesticides which have been found to be ecologically damaging. But factory organic farms use their own barrage of chemicals that are still ecologically damaging, and refuse to endorse technologies that might reduce or eliminate the use of these all together. Take, for example, organic farming’s adamant stance against genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
GMOs have the potential to up crop yields, increase nutritious value, and generally improve farming practices while reducing synthetic chemical use – which is exactly what organic farming seeks to do. As we speak, there are sweet potatoes are being engineered to be resistant to a virus that currently decimates the African harvest every year, which could feed millions in some of the poorest nations in the world15. Scientists have created carrots high in calcium to fight osteoperosis, and tomatoes high in antioxidants. Almost as important as what we can put into a plant is what we can take out; potatoes are being modified so that they do not produce high concentrations of toxic glycoalkaloids, and nuts are being engineered to lack the proteins which cause allergic reactions in most people. Perhaps even more amazingly, bananas are being engineered to produce vaccines against hepatitis B, allowing vaccination to occur where it’s otherwise too expensive or difficult to be administered. The benefits these plants could provide to human beings all over the planet are astronomical."
"organic farming practices use less synthetic pesticides which have been found to be ecologically damaging. But factory organic farms use their own barrage of chemicals that are still ecologically damaging, and refuse to endorse technologies that might reduce or eliminate the use of these all together. Take, for example, organic farming’s adamant stance against genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
GMOs have the potential to up crop yields, increase nutritious value, and generally improve farming practices while reducing synthetic chemical use – which is exactly what organic farming seeks to do. As we speak, there are sweet potatoes are being engineered to be resistant to a virus that currently decimates the African harvest every year, which could feed millions in some of the poorest nations in the world15. Scientists have created carrots high in calcium to fight osteoperosis, and tomatoes high in antioxidants. Almost as important as what we can put into a plant is what we can take out; potatoes are being modified so that they do not produce high concentrations of toxic glycoalkaloids, and nuts are being engineered to lack the proteins which cause allergic reactions in most people. Perhaps even more amazingly, bananas are being engineered to produce vaccines against hepatitis B, allowing vaccination to occur where it’s otherwise too expensive or difficult to be administered. The benefits these plants could provide to human beings all over the planet are astronomical."
Hace referencia a muchos de los nuevos transgénicos funcionales que se han creado para combatir ciertas problemáticas preocupantes en el mundo. Como se menciona se han creado zanahorias altas en calcio para contrarrestar la osteoporosis y tomates con cantidades altas de antioxidantes. Al igual se están creando nueces que no creen reacciones alérgicas y reduciendo la toxicidad de ciertos alimentos que consumimos. Pero lo más impresionante es la creación de vacunas para la Hepatitis B en bananas, la pregunta es aún crees que son tan malos como te los pintan. Los transgénicos en verdad son tan magníficos y realmente fueron creados para un bien, el problema es cuando caen manos de alguien que quiere usarlos con un fin lucrativo.
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