GMO discussion with teacher

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Perhaps the teacher was trying to get you to look at both sides? To get you to understand WHY GMOs were created? Regardless of what you believe is right/wrong, understanding the opposite viewpoint is important.

 

[sheila3935]

GMOs are not good for us the enviorment or the non GMO plants as well. They alter DNA in rats that are fed GMO foods. They cross pollenate plants and make them GMO. Monsanto owns the patent on their GMO crops, so if a farmer grows non GMO and wind pollenates some crop on his farm Monsanto can come in and fine him for growing GMO without buying their seed. The technolody is too new. It hasnt been fully researched to see what it may do to us. It makes the farmer spend more money then if he didnt grow it because he has to use more and more roundup to keep weeds at bay. It has been proven that it doesnt grow a bigger yeild and using that much herbisides ruins the ground soil. Maybe the teacher was trying to make you think about both sides but maybe he is misinformed as most of us are. Watch Farm Inc. or the Future Of Food. Research Monsanto and GMO foods. Most places in Europe have banned it. Most of our foods that are processed have GMOs in them without our knowledge. There are more people with food allergies then ever before in history. Has anyone ever thought that maybe its from our food being genitically modified?

 

[Royd]

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Because technology and science are driven by big money, and not for the good of the planet or the people....Most GMO are hybrids and must come from a controlling source, which means that, in order to produce this higher yield crop, for the sake of a few dollars more, one must sell their soul to the controlling producer of the seed.

Monsanto sues anyone who tries to go around them, and reuse the crop as seed for the next year.

Heritage plants and organic farming is about keeping it close to home. You plant enough of a crop to produce your own seed, and if you are smart you will select the healthiest plants as your seed crops....True science at work. Nothing inside a lab, with testtubes, white coats and millions of dollars of other people's money, which, in the end, is used to control the very people, from whom they got the money.

 

[Royd]

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You obviously think so. Haha don't try to turn this around on me.

well you asked how anyone could think that GMO's were a good thing and i think hungry people think it's a good thing

Here's someone, from California, cheering on GMO, because people are going hungry....How do you feel about farmers not being able to even grow a crop, to FEED THE HUNGRY, because some backward thinking environmentalists, love a little fish, more than they care about hungry people?

 

[Royd]

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But it also takes away the true heritage traits in a plant. Makes them better, but fake.

You can still have heritage strains of it. If the heritage are doing bad 1 year then the GMO might be doing good or vice versa. I would rather eat both but I am in favor of GMO plant because I am a fan of fried okra and I like the idea of hopefully always being able to have some.

Okra is not a really good example. It's a heat loving plant, which is bothered by very few pests. What with the coming heatwave, brought on by evil humans, we should be able to grow okra in Alaska, before long.

 

[Royd]

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All water is reclaimed...They aren't making anymore.....Maybe scientists could get on that project and figure out how to do it, in the Sahara Desert, and they could grow their own GMO corn.

 

[Royd]

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Well, thats good - sort of... But what about the biggest problem of them all? Too darn many of us! And each year there is more, thats unsustainable. You can use GMOs to try to compensate, but for how long, and what will be left if this goes on unchecked?

Here's a solution to that problem. Everyone who says that there are too many of us, must be the first to volunteer to remove themselves from the equation.......Oh, that puts a different spin on things, doesn't it? It's all those other people, who are crowding everything up.

 

[Dar]

*****STUPID GMO QUESTION****

please dont bite my head off.......

someone mentioned earlier about corn with fish DNA...

what happens if I am allergic to fish and I eat that corn.... I am being serious... told ya it was a stupid question.....

my son had intolerences to a few foods.... and if these 2 foods are crossed to make a super fruit the chances of a serious reaction is possible..

 

[Royd]

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Just my opinion and food scientists probably won't research it, because it would put them out of a job, but most food allergies are caused by foods created in food lab kitchens. If you need an encyclopedia to decipher a food label, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body.

Bread consists of flour, yeast, salt and a liquid. Not 20 other ingredients added to it.

 

[hemet dennis]

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So what you are saying is the farmer pays extra to buy GMO seeds then has to spend more on weed killer and then gets a smaller crop that is worth less. So you are saying the farmers are stupid ?