Goat's milk is easier on the human GIT (due to many reasons). Plus, I just enjoy it's funky taste, and its cheeses are sublime as well. Nothing wrong with almond milk-- but I tend to try and avoid soy products.
Someone who has a vested interest in Monsanto is against organic foods? Shocker.
I wouldn't say I have a vested interest in them. I don't sell to them, or buy from them. I've never sued them, they've never sued me. I like them because for the most part, they're putting good products out there. The reason I'm not a huge fan of organic crops is because of all the organic assholes that tell me I'm ruining the Earth (when they're the ones actually mining the soils of nutrients), and that they could easily produce all the food the world needs. They could not. Organic is fine, but it's not really any better than conventional foods.
Let me ask you this: if I'm choosing between getting my produce at a locally-sourced farmer's market that happens to use organic farming-techniques, or getting all of my produce from a national-grocer, I'm supposed to believe that the two are completely one and the same? Because you and I both know that's ********. You're a farmer. I'll never forget the taste of fresh-squeezed organic California orange juice, or the taste of a vine-ripened peach from the Okanagan Valley here in Canada-- especially in comparison to the produce I've had here.
They don't taste better because they're organic...they're probably just a different variety. Most fruits are better from a farmers-market, organic or not, because they're picked when they are ripe. Most fruits you get from a store were picked before they were ripe, induced with ethylene so that they get the ripening color but never actually go through the ripening process when they're on the plant which is where they get their sugars from. That's why any fruit from a farmers market will taste better than one in a grocery store, not because it's organic.
And FYI: most fertilizers and pesticides are being growingly-implicated as being estrogenic in nature, and that's something I want no part of, in terms of ingesting.
Ha. You aren't ingesting those pesticides. There's a very, very small amount on foods. In fact, there are more natural pesticides on a fruit/vegetable/grain than any synthetic ones. Most of the pesticides that plants produce themselves are more toxic than the synthetic ones. That's why it is arguable that organic production is safer. Same with fertilizers...you aren't really ingesting those.
I think the idiots are those who say that there is substantial proof that transgenic foods are bad for you. However, there is nothing idiotic about being cautious with the genetic experimentation of food we eat, seeing as we truly know extremely little about the intricate workings of genomics, particularly plant genomics.
Transgenic crops are generally single gene traits. As in, they're putting in one gene in a specific location to get a specific result. Traditional cross breeding involves multiple (and by multiple, I mean a lot) genes, where we're not totally sure what's going to happen with each gene, but we have a decent idea. In order to get a transgenic crop on the market, you have to spend millions of dollars in testing (primarily safety testing) to get it certified. With traditional cross breeding, you do not. There is more testing and more regulations for transgenics than anything else out there, yet we still don't think it's safe. Bah.
There is a difference between selecting crops for maybe a larger seed-kernel-- and inserting an anti-freeze gene from fish into plants.
I actually do a decent amount of work with crop breeding. You may want to trust me on this one.
Me too. He's pretty hot tbh. Can't argue that.
