Views on Genetic Modification

[Uieurnthlaal]

I just would like to see what other people's views on genetically modified crops, genetically modified animals, genetically modified bacteria, etc. are.
My views are that for things like pharmaceuticals, engineering bacteria to produce them is a great idea, so long as they're contained. Genetically modified food, on the other hand, I'm less certain about, mainly because of the potential of unstudied long-term effects on humans. But what about you?

[Benuty]

Personally i don't trust foods tampered with by corporations, I stick to organic.

[Sidhae]

Good and beneficial in many ways, no doubt, but somewhat poorly understood in terms of health effects.

Until GM foods are decisively proven to be harmless (and by decisively I mean multiple independent researches NOT sponsored by corporate giants), I'll stick with the good old-fashioned organic foods though.

[Benuty]

Good and beneficial in many ways, no doubt, but somewhat poorly understood in terms of health effects.

Until GM foods are decisively proven to be harmless (and by decisively I mean multiple independent researches NOT sponsored by corporate giants), I'll stick with the good old-fashioned organic foods though.

The hamster studies conducted by scientists, is probably the main reason im off it.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-sec ... ted-growth

I'd after all would not like to be infertile.

[Salandriagado]

Absolutely necessary and a vital tool in dealing with global poverty and starvation.

[TaQud]

i don't want food companies tampering with my food thank you very much.

[Salandriagado]

i don't want food companies tampering with my food thank you very much.

Yeah, better food, healthier food, food that grows in a wider variety of climates with less fertiliser/insecticide/fungicide use, fuck that shit, right?

[Benuty]

i don't want food companies tampering with my food thank you very much.

Yeah, better food, healthier food, food that grows in a wider variety of climates with less fertiliser/insecticide/fungicide use, fuck that shit, right?

So you mental retardation & infertility?

http://readersupportednews.org/news-sec ... ted-growth

[TaQud]

i don't want food companies tampering with my food thank you very much.

Yeah, better food, healthier food, food that grows in a wider variety of climates with less fertiliser/insecticide/fungicide use, fuck that shit, right?

well....if they make it healthier than I guess it could be ok....

[Ifreann]

Personally i don't trust foods tampered with by corporations, I stick to organic.

AKA: Foods tampered with in a different way.

[Benuty]

Personally i don't trust foods tampered with by corporations, I stick to organic.

AKA: Foods tampered with in a different way.

That depends on who grows it for you, I don't do regular of-the brand organic supermarkets for a very good reason. Im more co-op & communal organic stores, sounds rather hippy like XD.

[Ifreann]

AKA: Foods tampered with in a different way.

That depends on who grows it for you, I don't do regular of-the brand organic supermarkets.

It rather doesn't, unless you suppose that millennia of agriculture has done nothing to the various crops you eat.

[Benuty]

That depends on who grows it for you, I don't do regular of-the brand organic supermarkets.

It rather doesn't, unless you suppose that millennia of agriculture has done nothing to the various crops you eat.

Most foods I eat tend to be better than what the eastern European states export to France, considering it has been irradiated and who knows what else.

[Cosmopoles]

That depends on who grows it for you, I don't do regular of-the brand organic supermarkets.

It rather doesn't, unless you suppose that millennia of agriculture has done nothing to the various crops you eat.

But that's totally different! When farmers used agricultural methods to improve the traits of the food they grew they did it because they were completely selfless and loved babies and kittens or something, whereas the soulless corporations use their laboratories to infuse our salads with Evil Genes of Death and Profit^TM.

[Volnotova]

Good and beneficial in many ways, no doubt, but somewhat poorly understood in terms of health effects.

Until GM foods are decisively proven to be harmless (and by decisively I mean multiple independent researches NOT sponsored by corporate giants), I'll stick with the good old-fashioned organic foods though.

Being a GMO it self doesn't pose a health risk.

Some modifications might pose health "risks".

I don't think I am even going to bother anymore to discuss/debate this.

As long as some of those self-important plebs just cease to interfere with scientific progress and research they can stick with their "organic" foods for all I care.

[Benuty]

Good and beneficial in many ways, no doubt, but somewhat poorly understood in terms of health effects.

Until GM foods are decisively proven to be harmless (and by decisively I mean multiple independent researches NOT sponsored by corporate giants), I'll stick with the good old-fashioned organic foods though.

Being a GMO it self doesn't pose a health risk.

Some modifications might pose health "risks".

I don't think I am even going to bother anymore to discuss/debate this.

As long as some of those self-important plebs just cease to interfere with scientific progress and research they can stick with their "organic" foods for all I care.

Have you heard of the hamster studies conducted by Russian-American scientists?

[Yes Im Biop]

I am in full support of it in both plant's and people.

[Divair]

Absolutely necessary and a vital tool in dealing with global poverty and starvation.

What he said.

[Benuty]

I am in full support of it in both plant's and people.

Genetic splicing the wave of the future!

[Cosmopoles]

Yeah, better food, healthier food, food that grows in a wider variety of climates with less fertiliser/insecticide/fungicide use, fuck that shit, right?

So you mental retardation & infertility?

http://readersupportednews.org/news-sec ... ted-growth

I notice there's no mention of a control group.

[Cerillium]

I'm more concerned with what GMO seed providers do to farmers. It seems wildly unfair that the seeds are tampered with to give them a shortened storage life. Farmers are forbidden to harvest their own seeds. It puts more economic pressure on them.

[Ifreann]

It rather doesn't, unless you suppose that millennia of agriculture has done nothing to the various crops you eat.

But that's totally different! When farmers used agricultural methods to improve the traits of the food they grew they did it because they were completely selfless and loved babies and kittens or something, whereas the soulless corporations use their laboratories to infuse our salads with Evil Genes of Death and Profit^TM.

Ah, well, never mind me then. I'll just be over here breeding my race of atomic supermen. Because...um...kittens.

[Yes Im Biop]

I am in full support of it in both plant's and people.

Genetic splicing the wave of the future!

I want Incinerate! God dammit!

[Chinese Regions]

For

[Woahdude]

I think it's actually safer then making plants through conventional breeding (since you're only messing with one gene, not a whole bunch), but i have...problems with the idea that genetic code can be patented.