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BLOB_CASTLE · 3769 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Debate About GMO Safety Is Over, Thanks To A New Trillion-Meal Study

According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."

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thundara · 3769 days ago · link ·

A lot of speculation in there and not a lot of evidence to make any conclusions (and it's from 2005, almost a decade old now)... There's also no mention of the EU's ban on GMOs or the changes in their absence... perhaps you're thinking of their more recent neonicotinoid ban?

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user-inactivated · 3766 days ago · link ·

I actually have read about the CCD issue before, and if it's still happening it's a sad problem -- but in no way enough evidence to be skeptical of GMOs. Just too much upside.

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BLOB_CASTLE · 3769 days ago · link ·

Perhaps. But to be frank, I am skeptical of many modern conventions. I am from the school of thought that believes things were better when they were simpler. Sure, there may have been more deaths, but then the world wasn't rife with issues brought by overpopulation.