BF2S Forums Your opinion on GM foods.

I definitly thought you were talking about General Mills products, I like their stuff anyway, I don't really care whether food is modified or not, as long as it isn't harmful to humans go for it.

Last edited by Cubanpenguin (2007-02-07 20:26:13)

GM = Good Munchin'. Who cares if it's modified? People are so scared of nonsense. It's not like it's going to modify your genes. Since when has anyone picked up the genetic code of something they've eaten? If they can change red meat to not have the bad fats, or fix corn to be resistant to bugs and not need pesticide, them I'm all for it.

Yes, I want to eat an animal that is half-chicken and half-cow. It shall be called Cheef. Or Bicken.

GM is usually reserved for foods that have had a gene splice or directly manipulated, whereas what pizdets refers to is the selective breeding of plants in a group with certain traits, finding one in a group with a trait you find desirable and encouraging it's production over the other "normal" plants. been a few years but i believe mendeleve was the name of the monk that studied it. both forms of human intervention, but one done while manipulating reproduction, the other by direct action on the gene pool.

jonsimon wrote:

Probably unhealthy. A rule of thumb: The more processing between seed and plate, the less healthy. See no reason it won't hold for genetically processed.

What do you base this rule of thumb on? There are things you eat that would kill you if they were not processed.

kr@cker wrote:

feeding people = good

QFT

chittydog wrote:

....People are so scared of nonsense. It's not like it's going to modify your genes. Since when has anyone picked up the genetic code of something they've eaten? If they can change red meat to not have the bad fats, or fix corn to be resistant to bugs and not need pesticide, them I'm all for it.

Yep. Exactly. We eat DNA all the time in everything that's not processed to all buggery. People seem to think that just because GMOs have a slightly different genome to the wild type organisms it's some weird monstrosity and if you eat it you will turn into one of 'them', or something. I don't know what goes through these peoples heads. And the funny thing is, in my experience anyway, the people who are against GMOs because they are 'un-natural' are all on drugs...

The biggest problem I can see with GMOs is that large multinational companies that own the patent on the genes being modified/inserted will get very rich. And the farmers will keep having to pay them because these companies make certain that the seeds they sell grow into plants that don't produce offspring. But let's face it, the current situation means that companies get rich selling insecticide etc.... Six of one or a half dozen of the other...

I hope they don't change red meat to have none of the bad fats... that's what makes it taste so good.

cospengle wrote:

I hope they don't change red meat to have none of the bad fats... that's what makes it taste so good.

Kangaroo has hardly any fat and it tastes good...Mmm..Kangaroo steaks.

But, GM crops need to be contained though, cross-pollonation with other domesticated plants can cause a few problems.

The main idea for GM crops/foods is to make them havea  better yield, or decrease the diseases they get, not turning them blue or making them glow in the dark (thought scientists have altered mull DNA to make it glow in the dark =[ ).

Last edited by Macca (2006-11-07 20:33:55)

ATG wrote:

kr@cker wrote:

feeding people = good

QFT

Bah, Capitalist lies!  Avert your eyes, comrades, he make take on other forms!

Though cross-breeding/selective breeding/etc are forms of genetic modification, when most people speak of GM food, they're referring to food which contains genes that have been directly manipulated in a lab environment.  I'll assume you're talking about this sort of genetic modification, and not about cross/selective breeding and the like.

I have no problem with it, provided the modification/testing/etc can be done safely and without risk of harm and cross-contamination.  I happen to believe that current controls and methods are inadequate.

I'm utterly opposed to  "termination" stock...you know, seeds that are engineered to only have a couple of generations of growth in them, animals which can only breed for a couple of generations...that sorta thing.  IMO, that sort of genetic modification is absolutely disgusting, and will serve only to remove profit from those who actually earned it; the farmers.  THAT sort of genetic modification has NO PLACE WHATSOEVER on planet Earth.

Apprently, an African country was going to accept aid in the form of food from America. But the food was GM food (modified for greater vitamins or something) but Greenpeace told that country that the food was poisoned, so they refused it, to which hundreds to thounsands of people died.

Last edited by Macca (2006-11-07 23:03:09)

BN wrote:

Can someone explain the dangers of GM foods.

Hmm...Apart from cross-pollenation, where the pollen from the GM crops travel miles to other farms where they pollenate with other plants creating um.. hybrids I guess.

And I guess some radical fundalmentalists GM'ing their own crops with poisons or something....