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Originally Posted by Christien
I haven't seen the film, but I highly doubt that obesity and its issues are due to pesticides and GM seeds in base foods. I'm quite sure it has to do with unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles. It doesn't matter if your hamburger and fries are all made from organic sources, they're still ridiculously high in fat and calories, and if you sit at a computer all day, you don't work that off.
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For full disclosure - I have not seen the movie either. But these issues are all over the media and are a concern of people who try and stay fit and healthy.
What GMO seeds and pesticides do is allow farming and food to turn into another industrialized commodity. Not that these is anything noble paying for expensive food - but the way it is now - we a culture addicted to cheap junk food and sugars.
Corn and soybeans are the worst - barely digestible buy humans or animals.
Corn is native the Americas and was traditionally eaten with other foods. Soybeans are eaten in Asia - but usally after being allowed to ferment first into soy sauce, "natto" or miso..