Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[winteree]

the outside. A hitchhiker told me this joke...it was a turkey though, lol.

haha

good one

 

[7 Biddies]

The term GMO is used to describe organisms that have dna from a completely different organism artificially inserted into it in a lab. That cannot happen in nature, as we all know. Of course dna is changed through selective breeding etc but it's really apples to oranges here. Plants should not produce their own insecticide and bacterial dna doesn't hop into a plant or animal in nature. GMO, in this context, is COMPLETELY unnatural. The terminology will change later, as it's all about labeling, but the CONCEPT of this particular practice is what those of us buying non-gmo are against.

Well said. Thanks for simplifying what I made complicated. But, I was trying to be very specific so that no further misunderstandings would take place. When products such as chicken feed are labeled GMO free, everyone knows what that means. If hybridizing were included in that statement, well it wouldn't exist because it would be too difficult to create non-hybrid grains for feed ... and, too expensive, too.

So, I foolishly assumed the term GMO was understood to mean artificially genetically engineered organisms.. Silly me! I should know better than to *assume* anything. My bad.

Thanks for the help!

 

[7 Biddies]

I don't know about fruit, but I can tell you from experience that a grafted rose can die and a new one can grow from the root stock. I had that happen once and the new plant is way better than the one I had. It's the healthiest of all my roses and blooms like crazy. Yes, a completely different type

I wonder if it was an offshoot (new cane) from the root stock, giving you THAT rose. I buy my roses from www.heirloomroses.com because they are own root roses ... no grafting. They are really healthy plants, much more so than grafted ones IMO. Give them a look-see.

 

[7 Biddies]

what I would like to know is when did "in a laboratory" become synonymous with GMO? What about the phrase "genetically modified organism" lends itself to such verbiage?
(Not you specifically! But thus is what crosses my mind when people say this at thus point of the conversation and typically people get angry and turn into bullies when you have questions for them. Please don't take this as a personal attack on you, Bethel)

Genetically engineered is probably a more specific term, but genetically modified means the same thing and no one bothered to use the term regarding hybrids .... the term GMO/GM/GE came about with the advent of gene splicing in a lab. So, maybe that's why. Only a guess based on an observation, mind you. As Monk would say, "I could be wrong, but I don't think so".

 

[7 Biddies]

That is freakin hilarious! Lol
Well, assuming they eat chicken. I'm guessing they were saying something about you butchering your own maybe?

Here I go assuming again, but I assume they thought you meant a dead chicken you found lying around somewhere. In that case, I'd have to agree.

 

[7 Biddies]

yes it's why people with life threatening diseases cannot donate organs etc their was a famous case a few years ago of a girl that got a serious and rare type of lung cancer from a illegally obtained bone graft.

But, that's different,. In this case, it was cancerous cells from the donated bones spreading through the body - like injecting lab rats with cancer. Has nothing to do with genetics.

 

[7 Biddies]

Funniest thing I have ever heard about chickens was when my daughter-in-law told me that white eggs were just like brown ones...they just bleached them! I could not believe that she thought white eggs had just bleached to make them white. LOL

Oh, the guy who said he'd never heard of GMO also told me (he doesn't have chickens and knows that I do) that eggs are soft when they are laid and harden up later. I just recently heard someone mention that one (for the very first time to my old ears) on this board, and, then, shortly after, someone said it to me. Weird.!

(I'm drinking coffee on my porch and listening to egg songs!)

 

[ChezChicken]

I've been reading through this thread and some of them are hilarious! I have had people ask me if I'll eat my chickens and I always reply no because I keep them for their eggs. Also I knew from the beginning that I'd get way too attached to them to be able to eat them! I hug them both every day

 

[Bethel3330]

Well said. Thanks for simplifying what I made complicated. But, I was trying to be very specific so that no further misunderstandings would take place. When products such as chicken feed are labeled GMO free, everyone knows what that means. If hybridizing were included in that statement, well it wouldn't exist because it would be too difficult to create non-hybrid grains for feed ... and, too expensive, too.

So, I foolishly assumed the term GMO was understood to mean artificially genetically engineered organisms.. Silly me! I should know better than to *assume* anything. My bad.

Thanks for the help!

Lol oh, you're welcome, when I typed that, I'm not sure I had seen your post yet, but I think they're very helpful!

 

[Bethel3330]

But, that's different,. In this case, it was cancerous cells from the donated bones spreading through the body - like injecting lab rats with cancer. Has nothing to do with genetics.

I had thought the same but hadn't heard of that case so didn't know.