Reply to: GM Crops

[TimberWolf]

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.

They probably do. We are 50% banana(s) ourselves don't forgetl.

P.s. Is a banana a tree or a bush?

[Cyberman]

... which is why they shouldn't be allowed to become all we have.

"What will we do when all there is to eat is sand??!!" - Cyberdriveller

Heard the one about the two Irish queers??...... NickFitzPatrick and PratrickFitzNick

[NickFitz]

... and when all that we can eat is GM modified what will be the alternative when we have to give it up for health reasons. The alternative to cigarettes was ok because we can survive without them but what will be the alternative to GM foods when that is all we will have ??!!

... which is why they shouldn't be allowed to become all we have.

"What will we do when all there is to eat is sand??!!" - Cyberdriveller

[Cyberman]

There is evidence that GMs can cause cancer.

http://www.ghorganics.com/GM%20food%...e%20cancer.htm

Also why do you think that UK schools have banned GMs from their menus.

... and when all that we can eat is GM modified what will be the alternative when we have to give it up for health reasons. The alternative to cigarettes was ok because we can survive without them but what will be the alternative to GM foods when that is all we will have ??!!

[Lambros]

There is evidence that GMs can cause cancer.

http://www.ghorganics.com/GM%20food%...e%20cancer.htm

Also why do you think that UK schools have banned GMs from their menus.

[EternalOptimist]

So what has GM got to do with food shortages?

Exactly.
The main obstacle to GM crops is public opinion
The great British public believe that GM will grow potatos the size of medicine balls
The great BritiSh public was mostly against GM
Because of some food shortages public opinion is shifting

hence my question
does anyone on here find their opinion shifting

I think the answer was a no.Except for me. I think yields will increase , and I also think they will do so with less water(which is the next big problem coming down the pipe)

I find myself becoming a big fan of GM

[TheBigYinJames]

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

SAS and Prawn have already submitted preliminary offers on his house.

[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!

[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?

[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]

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................

[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.

[NickFitz]

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

Yes, and they're all Spartacus...

[Spartacus]

Soylent Green

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

[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?