{"id":210,"date":"2017-03-21T03:48:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/?p=210"},"modified":"2017-03-21T03:48:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T10:48:16","slug":"aetna-posts-anti-gmo-graphic-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/2017\/03\/21\/aetna-posts-anti-gmo-graphic-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Aetna Posts Anti-GMO Graphic on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aetna\/status\/842722187694018560\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-anti-gmo-tweet-1024x1006.png\" alt=\"Tweet from Aetna suggesting organic foods are good and GMOs are bad\" width=\"512\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-anti-gmo-tweet-1024x1006.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-anti-gmo-tweet-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-anti-gmo-tweet-768x754.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-anti-gmo-tweet-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-anti-gmo-tweet.png 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aetna\/status\/842722187694018560\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a> showed up on my Twitter timeline today. It&#8217;s unsurprising to see misinformation about GMOs and chemicals on social media, but I am surprised and disappointed this is coming from Aetna, a health insurance company. While this image doesn&#8217;t explicitly state to avoid GMOs, the quotes around &#8220;Grown&#8221; suggest that GMO foods are bad. <a href=\"http:\/\/gmo.geneticliteracyproject.org\/FAQ\/are-gmos-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\">They are not<\/a>. For organic, I&#8217;m not sure what &#8220;Grown without chemicals&#8221; means. Everything is made up of chemicals, including water and the foods themselves. Do they mean pesticides? Because <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/science-sushi\/httpblogsscientificamericancomscience-sushi20110718mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\">organic does not mean pesticide-free<\/a>. And\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0111629\" target=\"_blank\">GMOs reduce pesticide use<\/a>\u00a0in some cases. It&#8217;s also worth noting that Snopes has written that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/prepare\/produce.asp\" target=\"_blank\">these codes shouldn&#8217;t be relied upon by consumers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">While Aetna&#8217;s tweet did get a lot of retweets and likes, the replies weren&#8217;t so supportive.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aetna\/status\/842722187694018560\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-213\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-tweet-replies-1007x1024.png\" alt=\"Responses from Twitter to Aetna criticizing their pro-organic, anti-GMO tweet\" width=\"570\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-tweet-replies-1007x1024.png 1007w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-tweet-replies-295x300.png 295w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-tweet-replies-768x781.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-tweet-replies-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2017\/03\/aetna-tweet-replies.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This promoted tweet showed up on my Twitter timeline today. It&#8217;s unsurprising to see misinformation about GMOs and chemicals on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,76,74,12],"tags":[139,105,65],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","category-health","category-science","category-skepticism","tag-aetna","tag-gmo","tag-organic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}