Should we genetically modify our food?
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Topic: Should we genetically modify our food?
Posted By: HanFei
Subject: Should we genetically modify our food?
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 5:14pm
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Since our dinning hall has yet to start serving dinner, I thought we could write about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). GMOs are nothing new. They've been growing amongst "natural" crops for over 30 years. In the US 90% of all soybeans and ~75% have been modified intentionally at the genetic level. In total, 62.5 million hectares of GMOs were grown in the US during 2008 alone. Yet, despite ~70% of all processed food in the US containing some form of GMO, usually corn, canola and soybeans, no one death has been directly associated with GMOs ingestion. During the same year of 2008, ~2,000 people in the US died after taking asprin... I'm not saying GMOs are without risk, there is nothing that is safe. We only have things that are safer. And, I'd say GMOs are pretty safe. Dispite this, what do you uthink about GMOs? - HanFei |
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Posted By: Deadaim
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 5:18pm
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i watched an intresting show about the seed companies.. some pretty f***ed up stuff with the patents or whatever.. they were allowed to sue someone because a truck driving by his farm accidently pollinated his plants with their seeds.. and thus his crop became a violation of their patent.
this particular seed was genetically modified to keep bugs away ------------- 
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Posted By: Fluffy Fluffington
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 5:25pm
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Im all for GMO's
The whole organic food craze is such a bunch of BS.
So called organic food spoils faster and costs up 3x as much.
Just so some rich fat ignorant housewife can think she's 'saving the world'
you're not saving anything ... not money, not the environment, and certainly not your waistline.
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Posted By: HanFei
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 7:39pm
Yes, the company is called Monsanto. Their copyright is on "round up ready soybeans," a combination of part of DNA from a round up resistant strain of bacteria injected into the soybean genome. By modifying the organism in this way, the plant can be sprayed with the round up herbicide and not die. Unfortunately, farmers cannot save their seed, since they have to buy new Monsanto seed and more importantly a lease to use their intellectual property. It is truly horrible that Monsanto employees will trespass on farmers land who don't grow Monsanto soybeans, but are adjacent to a crop of round up ready soybeans. If the farmer's crop has been pollinated by roundup ready soybeans, the farmer is sued for intellectual property violation. Most farmers settle out of court, virtually all that have gone to court against the Monsanto Lawyer team have lost. While this is certainly one of the most tragic intellectual property violations b/c the farmers had no intent to violate Monsanto's intellectual property, intellectual property lawsuits are not integrally tied into GMOs. Fortunately, Monsanto's copyright is about to expire, allowing all farmers to use round up ready soybeans without paying for a lease from Monsanto. ------------- |