Quote: Some chickens don't synthesize their nutrient intake correctly so their eggs and meat will never match the best out there. Some of the very high production layers are not genetically predisposed to putting the full quality of their diet into their eggs even when on a more natural diet; however there's a few factors that affect this. I won't speak for backyard-reared or bred birds in this case, only hatchery-bought or production-keeper ex-layers.
Their eggs are much better once on a better diet but since there's a lifetime of 'catch-up' healthwise, they many take a year or more to lay truly healthy looking eggs. It's different once they've been raised minus the lack and damage of their ancestor's environments, and those hens I bred from high production layers were, by around the fourth generation, not noticeably different in quality from any other chook's. I see more American C.P.Layers looking red in the combs than I do Aussie ones and the genetic differences as well as feed makeup and vaccines etc is probably the deciding influence, I'd guess.
Quote: Nobody is advocating fear, here. Just awareness. It's too late to 'take action to control' many of the changes that have been made. Just because the truth may be aggravating or make the future look bleak doesn't mean it's not true nor does that make it fearmongering. It's just the world we live in. As always, as it has been all throughout history, we must get on with our lives irrespective of whatever problems loom. There's always something.
The studies I refer to are most often those done by the industries themselves. They themselves publish all the incriminating evidence you could want, because there is no fear of possibility of repercussions. This is just recording history now. Our awareness so we can protect ourselves is the only logical direction to pursue. Monsanto knew their products were harmful, and took steps all throughout their history with the help of well placed lobbyists to protect themselves, and now Obama has given them permanent legal immunity. That legal document is freely available and that situation was all over the news. Monsanto is not going to feed the world, as people had hoped.
Quote: If it's suspect, it's logical you would seek out the information to prove or disprove it. I'm not asking you to fetch facts to present to me, as I think that's quite disrespectful, I'm just encouraging you to seek the truth of the matter for yourself to it's no longer a suspicion, neither confirmed nor denied. Note, I'm not saying it's actual alien DNA, just alien to us.
The information I refer to is often not only published in mainstream journals, news programs, newspapers, magazines etc (which doesn't make it true of course), but more importantly, published by the companies that support GMO products the most. In other words published by those that are biased in its favour.
Many 'old timers' I've met are often suspect of anything that sounds like science did not save the world but has in fact wrought terrible and permanent damage in it; it's a generational/educational thing. After all, many of the same old timers were on the frontline of the wave of misinformed or ignorant chemical users who have unwittingly helped propagate enormous damage, and some of them still believe the scientific 'facts' of their youth which the scientists themselves have since debunked as bad or pseudo science. The majority of scientists themselves were also ignorant and also misinformed deliberately in some cases. It's all been an enormous commercially driven rollercoaster ride which very few people are actually able to be blamed for or held responsible for, as the majority of them were well intentioned and quite 'hip' to the scientific 'facts' and 'studies' of their day. They acted in good faith and trust. Nobody should be pointlessly or uselessly afraid, just aware; certainly action should be taken to control what we eat and drink, and breathe. I'm not on any anti-science or chemistry bandwaggon, in fact I find it fascinating and have high hopes that once commercial industry (and self-interest) stops being such a dictator, we'll see some really great innovations which are not supported by the biased studies you referred to, but rather honestly reviewed and tested and applied. All the best.