Kreutz wrote:Who will prove its safety? Don't tell me you don't trust the free market to handle that?
Look, without getting overtly technical theres a reason you even can snip a certain sequence of genetic code from say, a jellyfish and put them into corn or a pig. Its because all living things, animal or plant are really quite genetically similar.....you share roughly 50% of your genome with the banana you had for breakfast. Thats a huge number for two things so different.
This isnt a shock since animal and plant diverged off each other about 1.5 billion years ago. Everything just gets recycled.
At the end of the day this may even be safer than dousing food in neurotoxic pesticides. Or eating them may cause bizarre tumors. Time and research will tell.
I understand Keutz what you are saying. I also understand that plants and animals are similar in some of the genomes. However, there in no way will a Jellyfish have a chance to "get together" with a kernel of corn to make jelly corn babies. What they are doing is playing with fire, and they don't know how to control it properly. It can and has already started getting out of hand. They make seeds that with a few tweaks no longer produce seeds that will reproduce on their own. It is mixing with heirloom and heritage seeds.
“To avoid contamination problems, GMO seeds should be banned and not produced. There is unforeseen harm they may be causing to the environment, and we’re able to get adequate production using nonengineered varieties of vegetable seeds. There is no benefit to the risk of GMO crops cross-pollinating with pure crops, whose offspring would not produce viable seeds.”
They are making crops that are resistant to the pesticides, and you know what those pests for a few years were largely not a problem. But now, those pests are becoming immune to the pesticides. Guess what, now they have to change the seeds genome again.
"The GMO soybean can cross-pollinate with the heirloom soybean (bees don’t know the difference and can’t see property lines), creating a generation of all-mutant seeds. If the organic-soybean farmer tries to use this generation of seed for the next season like he does every year, that seed will be sterile, or as a viable hybrid, posses a completely different set of traits than the parent heirloom.
No matter what, the organic farmer now has altered seeds, and the true-to-type, pure seeds are wiped out of existence.
Forever."
I won't convince you that the GMO's are bad. I don't intend to. That is for you to come to terms with. I can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink. However, I think it is important for everyone to be informed so that they can make informed decisions.
"At the end of the day this may even be safer than dousing food in neurotoxic pesticides. Or eating them may cause bizarre tumors. Time and research will tell."
Yes that is the case, however, you don't know all of it. They are making strains of plants that are immune to the neurotoxins so that they can safely spray the plants with them anyway and not lose any of the crop. They are changing the seeds/plants/animals in so many ways that they are running into problems.
Yes time and research will tell. My whole point of the original post is that they are not taking the time it takes to see what the whole outcome will be. We are seeing from the past changes they have made that it is not all good. Time and Research are being done on our generation, and kids and their kids. I am not ok with this. Just so that they can make more money now. I am not and never will be ok with that.
If you are interested here is the article I am quoting.
http://www.edibleaustin.com/content/edi ... ?task=view
This is one of hundreds and hundreds. You can read the research being done on animals that are eating GMO feeds and ones that are being fed non GMO feed, the difference is startling.
Toodles and have a great day!
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