Are you hearing the fear-mongering voices or the fact-based voices who don't want you to fear your food? There is an important distinction.
That's why we're sharing these quotes from across common-sense, don't-fear-your-food folks with links to the posts for more information.
"I fell victim to the lies and spent way too much money on food, based purely on misinformation. Is it right to lie to people? How is this ethical when you have to scare the ever-living daylights out of people to sell your product?" - Michelle Miller, aka The Farm Babe
"An illusion also has developed that chemicals can be divided into categories of “safe” versus “unsafe.” But any substance, even food and vitamins, can be harmful if we consume too much of it. Safety is relative, depending on the frequency, duration and magnitude of exposure." - Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project founder
"People only hear the negative headlines and the scary stuff about agriculture. No one wants to cover the positive news. So it gets buried and the world continues to believe glyphosate is in all of our favorite breakfast foods and we’re all being slowly poisoned." - Amanda, The Farmer's Daughter
"Agrobacterium genetically modified the sweet potato by transferring its own bacterial DNA into the crop during early domestication in the Americas several thousand years ago. (Read more at bit.ly/2NnbQpB.) Sweet potatoes are naturally transgenic! - Nathan Goldschmidt, AgPro
"Misunderstandings about risk complicate our ability to make informed decisions about everything from vaccines and medical decisions to what food we eat and feed our children. Unfortunately, humans, on the whole, are intuitively terrible at assessing risk." - neuroscientist Alison Bernstein and biologist Iida Ruishalme on Thoughtscapism.
Please don't fear your food. And Happy Halloween!