I have a hard time understanding people who do not vaccinate their children. Humans are living longer and healthier lives since the creation of vaccines than we have since Old Testament times. Vaccines have saved countless lives and saved billions of dollars on disease treatment. I can't imagine the horror of loosing a child to vaccine preventable diseases, but it happens every day in countries where vaccine use is not widespread. And because these diseases are not prevalent here the idea that they are not real threats seems to be widespread in this country. I would argue that because they are not eradicated and still exist in the world, they are still major threats. The accidental introduction through global migration of people would cause massive devastation in an un-vaccinated people group. See a Ted-talk on Polio eradication efforts
As far as GMOs are concerned, I guess I don't care if people want to waste their money, but most foods have no GMO counterpart anyway. The foods that do, namely corn and potatoes (since these are huge commodity items) have massive benefits to mankind. Maybe you are not of the mindset that starving people anywhere is a real problem, but the world population continues to increase and there needs to be a way to feed them. Genetically modified crops increase production per acre while decreasing pesticide use and carbon emissions from repeatedly driving over fields to spray those pesticides. Genetic modification occurs over time in any crop (through use of hybridization) to improve certain characteristics. Genetic modification in a lab just increases the speed at which these modifications can be obtained. There are not such drastic changes to plant structure that these changes are affecting our health. See Article.
In fact I challenge you that since the Fall of man the human DNA structure has been deteriorating. Do you not think it possible that increased disease rates in children could also be a sign of a continuously failing genome? Anyway, this is just some food for thought. Ted-talk on science denial
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