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10-01-2011
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Genetically modified food
Some genetically modified crops (including e.g. soybeans, cotton, corn, papaya, rapeseed, sugar beet, squash) have already been on the market for quite some time. The modifications typically make the plants resistive to herbicides or pesticides. More is to come and there will be new types of modifications. For example, the so-called Golden Rice is about to hit the market in 2012. The modification is such that the rice produces and thus containts huge amounts of vitamin A. Future tomatoes won't soften after harvesting because of a modification.
Scientists have a consensus that the GM food is completely safe. There have been few cases in which a modified crop has contained an allergine because it was modified by using a gene from a plant that also contains the allergine.
Are you afraid of GM food? Would you prefer naturally grown products?
Some ppl are afraid that GM food might be such a big thing that it could lead into an apocalypse. The future scenario involves one or two major corporations producing and distributing GM food thus basicly conquering the global economy.
What do you think will happen?
Animal products have also been developed, although as of July 2010 none are currently on the market. In 2006 a pig was engineered to produce omega-3 fatty acids. Researchers have also developed a genetically-modified breed of pigs that are able to absorb plant phosphorus more efficiently, and as a consequence the phosphorus content of their manure is reduced by as much as 60%.
Is this a clear violation of animal rights?
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10-01-2011
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Ill just put my first 2cents, to start this up...
I dont see a problem in GM food, problem like 2 companies running all the food chain, like Serafi put, could be solved by market regulations.
I think people are against it because we still have a alternative, but when the population hits a determined size, there will not be enough land to cultivate food for all the planet, so we'll have to turn to GM crops to supply the demand.
Its same thing as insulin, I doubt anyone has problem with it beeing produced by modified bacterias (first it was collect from dead human bodies), if it wasnt for this manipulation, diabetes wouldnt be a easily treatable disease like it is now.
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10-01-2011
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The way the population is growing.....clone food is our future
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10-01-2011
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By the time cloned food is needed, we will all be dust, so does it really matter ? LOL
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23-01-2011
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Basically ,
Poor farmers can afford GM crops , they require less water , less nutrients are drought resistant, so often farmers do not find this a problem , in fact it's a huge advantage for them . Poor farmers can afford this mean that developing countries can Develop Faster .
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once the modification is done it can't be reversed, this can cause a disruption in the ecosystem . Food chain would be effected .
all in all , GM crops are not a method of Sustainable development .
Messing with nature is a bad idea , remember the green revolution?
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25-02-2011
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im not for or against it, i just dont give a shit where my food comes from, all matters if it doesnt make me sick and it tastes/looks fine
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08-03-2011
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i agree with levi but i also wouldnt want the food mutating ppl around me i wouldnt want to look up at dinner table and my little brother bein lookin at me like this
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i am 4 eat!!!(it) |
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09-03-2011
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i am 4 eat!!!(it)
times have change, people has no jobs, everyone goes hungry, goverment cannot support its constituents, family is scrapping to make a living-selling there house, doing prostitution, dealing with drugs, stealing etc...and thats to feed there family!
i am too is living in the edge...SO I AM FOR IT!!!
lets eat genetically MODIFIED FOOD:dita:
come to think of it...maybe those who are against it is well off/living a good life
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26-03-2011
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noone else has any opinions??
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