Debate: Can Humanity survive our technolgical infancy?
Side: Long Live Humanity

However, we can now manufacture diseases - diseases which would make the Black Death look like child's play.You really should write science fiction. What diseases can we manufacture, and have any of these diseases ever actually been used? Maybe it's yes to the first, but it's definitely no to the second. In fact not only could we have prevented black death, but we completely eliminated small pox one of the most destructive diseases known to man. These are just a few examples of the wonders of modern medicine.I don't know; however, this is what I was told by several people involved in the food industry.I heard from a guy is your source...well clearly that must be right, why are we even debating?I studied genealogy a few years back; most of my relatives - poor relatives, mind you - died in their sixties or seventies. This was back in the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s. Also, there were very few cases of infant mortality in my family back then. That covers both Canada and the US. If the averages from your source are for the entire world, than I remind you that in much of Africa and parts of Asia the average lifespans are fairly low; also, I remind you that records at the time were horribly shoddy.Not gonna lie, but you really need to understand the concept of sample size. Just because something is the case for you, or someone you know means very little. Now I can give you statistics from the National Center of Health Statistics or the Center for Disease control and Prevention or from The Department of Health and Human Services raw data, graph or a ton of other organizations and they all point to the same thing: industrialization is good for our health. We live longer and healthier now then we ever had...so maybe drop it with the food thing already. Unless you think we evolved to be super resistant to the terrible things in our food, then clearly what we're eating/getting as medical treatment is helping us live longer.For a family who can hardly afford the cheapest of foods, how are they to afford organic?In the past those families wouldn't have been able to afford to eat anything. I'm pretty sure they're happy with the food. In addition, we are the only society in the history of the world that has a negative correlation between weight and wealth. In other words those poor families are spending too much on food. I'm pretty sure they could afford to eat less and healthier...they just choose not to.Whether they care about it or not is besides the point; I am arguing about that which is best for the populace, not that which the populace desires.So you'd take away freedom of choice rather than letting people decide whether they want to eat the organic or the processed stuff? Plus, as I've said earlier, we're a whole lot healthier now then we were in the past.That you know of...As someone who did three sports in highschool keeping in shape was a big priority. A big part of that had to do with my diet, and I promise that I would know if I was under the weather. The only health issues I had throughout highschool were completely unrelated to diet. So once again, allow me to point out that personal anecdotal evidence is useless.Plus I'd willingly put up with a little extra gas for over 20 years more life...wouldn't you?I watched a Canadian documentary...Unrelated and unreliable source. I watched a documentary that said George Bush was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and that dentists are secretly working for the CIA by putting listening devices in your teeth.You will believe almost any source that you think supports your point regardless of its validity. I find it funny how selectively you exercise your skepticism. You'll dispute a scientific study, but if your uncle tells you something then it may as well be a mandate from god...all that matters is whether or not it supports what you say.Yes, however, it is part of the WTO. If two countries come to the WTO with a dispute regarding foodstuffs, the nation which is Codex-Compliant automatically wins the dispute, no matter the validity of the other nation's arguments!What authority does the WTO actually have? Since when can it settle international disputes? What would an international dispute about foodstuffs even be?Once again, I don't share your paranoia.