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Should GMO be banned?
- Thread starter Senmut
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No.
Genetic modification of crops have increased crop yields and some actually said averted famine. Plus people have genetically modified crops since there were crops.
We did it with selective breading. Maybe not the same thing but you are still working with the same building blocks.
What I dislike about GMO is the secrecy behind them.
The seller of the seeds having ownership of the seeds that the plant grew is some shady stuff.
Are there dangers in GMO. Yes, I bet there can be. But, I say the benefits out weight the problems.
Genetic modification of crops have increased crop yields and some actually said averted famine. Plus people have genetically modified crops since there were crops.
We did it with selective breading. Maybe not the same thing but you are still working with the same building blocks.
What I dislike about GMO is the secrecy behind them.
The seller of the seeds having ownership of the seeds that the plant grew is some shady stuff.
Are there dangers in GMO. Yes, I bet there can be. But, I say the benefits out weight the problems.
Train Dodger
The Misanthrope
Genetic modification of food doesn't affect their food value. Like, at all. Regardless of what you insert into a plant or animal's genome, it's all going to end up broken down by stomach acids and digestive enzymes into its constituent fats and amino acids anyway. It literally makes no difference. The only time genetic modification is bad is if you insert a gene for an enzyme that makes a toxin or something along those lines. Most genetic modification of crops is aimed at making them herbicide-resistant. These modifications are harmless and don't affect the taste or nutrition of foodstuffs at all.
The nasty thing about GMO plants is not that they're genetically-modified, but that they're fucking soaked in cancer-causing glyphosate weedkiller, which no amount of washing completely removes.
The nasty thing about GMO plants is not that they're genetically-modified, but that they're fucking soaked in cancer-causing glyphosate weedkiller, which no amount of washing completely removes.
Avernus
Well-known member
No. It should be more regulated and cooperate profiteering stopped, but that's true whether GMOs are involved or not.
I'll also add that a lot of selective breeding in recent decades involved exposing plants to radiation or other mutagens and seeing what popped up. Since many people seem to think selective breeding is somehow more "natural".
In fact selective breeding tends to be more extreme and unpredictable than genetic engineering, at least at the present state of the art. Selective breeding shifts whole genomes at a time, not just one or two genes. That's why selectively bred plants and animals tend to have all sorts of unintended, often negative traits.
I'll also add that a lot of selective breeding in recent decades involved exposing plants to radiation or other mutagens and seeing what popped up. Since many people seem to think selective breeding is somehow more "natural".
Selective breeding is still just selective breeding. Exposing a plant to extreme circumstance is still selection it is only debatable how natural it is.
now transplants are weird.
How about crossing tobacco with a tomato. You can totally do that. Someone actually did for shits and giggles after watching a Simpsons episode.
There is an orchard by my house.
If you are outside looking in There is some weird shit in fruit farming. It is all very mundane if you work with it.
Smokin' tomatoes? Cool.