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What is your view on genetically modified foods?

They should be banned!
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They should all be labeled as genetically modified.
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They should be encouraged.
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Who cares? Just don't touch fried chicken.
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Postby The Cosmos » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:23 pm

What is your view on genetically modified foods? Why?
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Postby Tlaceceyaya » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:23 pm

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:24 pm

The Cosmos wrote:What is your view on genetically modified foods? Why?

It is considered polite to provide more than one sentence when starting a thread. What are your thoughts? Do you approve or disapprove? Are some kinds okay and not others? If so, which kinds?
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Postby The Cosmos » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:24 pm

I believe that they should be encouraged, as long as they are intensely tested and labeled as GM.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:25 pm

Label them so people can be able to know what they are buying. That is my opinion on the genetically modified foods as knowledge is half of the battle.
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Postby Broccoli » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:26 pm

I agree. As long as they don't genetically modify broccoli, which is good as it is.
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Postby The Nuclear Fist » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:26 pm

I have no problem with them, I don't see why people other than Luddites would.
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Postby Vazdania » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:26 pm

The Cosmos wrote:What is your view on genetically modified foods? Why?

They should most DEFINITELY be labeled as such! >:(
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Postby TaQud » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:27 pm

nope. Though I appreciate some companies when they label foods saying "we did not use (insert name here) hormone in our products" or something like that
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Postby Johto and Kanto » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:27 pm

Theyre food. Its dead. Idc.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:28 pm

Vazdania wrote:
The Cosmos wrote:What is your view on genetically modified foods? Why?

They should most DEFINITELY be labeled as such! >:(

Why?
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Postby The Cosmos » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:29 pm

While genetically modified foods can have some adverse effects (for instance, the bT toxin found in one strand of genetically modified corn can transfer to the pollen and kill insects that come into contact with it), the issues are most often eradicated after testing, and GM foods are also very helpful. For instance, Golden Rice, engineered to contain more beta-carotene, has saved thousands of lives from Vitamin A deficiency.
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Postby United Marxist Nations » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:29 pm

GMOs are indispensable.
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Postby Vazdania » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:29 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Vazdania wrote:They should most DEFINITELY be labeled as such! >:(

Why?

Because if one wants to eat naturally, then they should be able to. This artificial attack on natural food makes it difficult to tell what's truly natural and what's been artificially toyed with...
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Postby Broccoli » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:30 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Vazdania wrote:They should most DEFINITELY be labeled as such! >:(

Why?

People have a right to know what they're buying. It doesn't harm anything, just reduces liabilities and angry customers.
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Postby Johto and Kanto » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:31 pm

Broccoli wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Why?

People have a right to know what they're buying. It doesn't harm anything, just reduces liabilities and angry customers.

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Postby Vazdania » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:31 pm

Broccoli wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Why?

People have a right to know what they're buying. It doesn't harm anything, just reduces liabilities and angry customers.

exactly, I want to buy natural broccoli to eat it :p instead of genetically modified broccoli.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:32 pm

Broccoli wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Why?

People have a right to know what they're buying. It doesn't harm anything, just reduces liabilities and angry customers.

Extra packaging adds to the cost of the product. Anyway, I wanted angry face to answer. He seems rather exercised about it.
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Postby The Cosmos » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:32 pm

Now, it should be noted that in many cases, beneficial genes from related species are often placed in other species to form GM foods. This occurs naturally in nature, we are just speeding it along and choosing beneficial genes to input.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:32 pm

Vazdania wrote:
Broccoli wrote:People have a right to know what they're buying. It doesn't harm anything, just reduces liabilities and angry customers.

exactly, I want to buy natural broccoli to eat it :p instead of genetically modified broccoli.

What are you afraid of?
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Postby Olthar » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:32 pm

Seeing as how pretty much the only genetic modifications applied to foods is to make the plants hardier and able to live in harsher climates as well as producing more per acre, I don't see why this is an issue outside of the scaremongers who claim that we're creating poison. There are people who need this food to survive, billions of them, in fact. We literally cannot feed everyone with purely organic farming, and I think that the people who try forcing the world to give up genetically modified food are some of the most evil people in history.
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Postby Broccoli » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:33 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Broccoli wrote:People have a right to know what they're buying. It doesn't harm anything, just reduces liabilities and angry customers.

Extra packaging adds to the cost of the product. Anyway, I wanted angry face to answer. He seems rather exercised about it.

Not really extra packaging, just either two more printed letters (GM) or not.
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Postby The Nuclear Fist » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:34 pm

Vazdania wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Why?

Because if one wants to eat naturally, then they should be able to. This artificial attack on natural food makes it difficult to tell what's truly natural and what's been artificially toyed with...

We've been modifying food since agriculture became a thing. Ever eaten a banana? Modified. Corn? Modified.
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Postby Tubbsalot » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:34 pm

Oh good, this forum is still full of people who think labelling GMOs makes any sense.

To repeat what I've said in the last half-dozen of these: a "GMO" label is like an "Edible" label. Whether or not it's edible isn't the important information. The important thing is whether you should eat it, and neither of those labels tell you anything about that.

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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:34 pm

Broccoli wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Extra packaging adds to the cost of the product. Anyway, I wanted angry face to answer. He seems rather exercised about it.

Not really extra packaging, just either two more printed letters (GM) or not.

People will think it's from General Motors.

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