GM Crops

[Moscow Mule]

You should take the opportunity to become accustomed to GM modified food, because soon enough that will be all that is available.

All of these wooly liberals who've had wholly organic diets will be ****ed and die due to weak digestive systems...

[NickFitz]

You should take the opportunity to become accustomed to GM modified food, because soon enough that will be all that is available.

Soylent Green

[gingerjedi]

When I was a kid I remember my dad splicing a potato plant with a tomato plant (tomatoes up top and potatoes down below) I can't remember if it worked or not?

[Spartacus]

Soylent Green

Hang on a minute, isn't that... people?!

[NickFitz]

Hang on a minute, isn't that... people?!

Yes, and they're all Spartacus...

[Alf W]

I've got mixed feelings about this.

I agree from the perspective that chickens and cows are only the way they are today after centuries of selective breeding so even organic ones are GM in some way.

Can't say I agree when crops are modified so they don't produce viable seed for the following year's crop meaning the farmer has to buy more seed every year from the evil multinational (<name removed>) who provided the original.

[expat]

Haven't you noticed that potato plants also produce fruit?

They look like tomatos but there's enough toxins in one to poison an entire street.

toxins which you sometimes get in the potato tuber itself. It is broken down by high temperatures, like frying but not boiling. So chips are healthier................

[Troll]

You are over turning billions of years of evolution with a century of science, there is probably a very good biological reason why jellyfish genetic components do not belong in a fruit & it's only our arrogance that lets us think we know better.

[expat]

Anyone have any strong views on the use of GM crops ? Has anyone modified their views due to the current food shortages in some parts of the world ?

Most common GM mod is to make crops resistant to Roundup. Fine, you can then spray your fields, but the purpose is to sell more weedkiller. We get to eat more of it as a result.

Another GM mod is to make crops not reproduce in the wild. So the farmers have to go back and buy more seed from Monsanto every year.

Famous one is to put fish antifreeze into tomatoes. I'd rather just have my tomatoes from somewhere they can grow well, anyway that's almost anywhere if you use glass.

So what has GM got to do with food shortages?

[Alf W]

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! You NAMED them. That might not have been such a good move to go naming such a notoriously litigious and determined multinational.

You'd better be able to back that claim up Expat or they gonna take your house!