This Means War

**gaelic cowboy** · 01-07-2011, 01:07

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Oh it makes perfect sense; the companies making the seeds wont make money if you are able to produce your own.

Some of the aims are noble like using less water or preventing disease but seed control is what there really after.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 01-07-2011, 05:15

Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

...seed control is what there really after.

So the key is to defend our prescious essence?

**Vladimir** · 01-12-2011, 17:32

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

So the key is to defend our prescious essence?

Sorry, just saw this. It's pretty funny.

**Centurion1** · 01-13-2011, 04:33

gmo are perfectly safe. do i know if im eating any? nope and dont give a damn doesnt matter at all.

gmos are the worlds future and you are nothing but a reactionary holding back humanities possibility. by your ridiculous efforts and the efforts of ridiculous groups like greenpeace a legitimate form of crop is being limited. so kudos to them for expanding their trade i approve of corporate espionage. rules and ethics are for losers to feel good about

**a completely inoffensive name** · 01-13-2011, 04:49

As TA has alluded to in his post, all food is GMO. Cows were not the killable, milkable food dispensaries that they are today back 10,000 years ago when civilization first began. Wheat of all kinds, rice, fruit, you name it. All of our food has been modified by human guided breeding and selection. 2,000 years ago a bunch of farmers had a bunch of steer have sex with one specific cow because it produced 5% more milk then most other cows. Today a bunch of geneticists take a gene from a fish who lives in freezing temperatures and put it in a tomato so it doesn't die during a harsh winter. It's the same thing, people only freak out because the possibilities are endless. Where breeding limits the amount of genes to what is present in the global population of that species, now any gene from any species can benefit any other species on this Earth.

**Centurion1** · 01-13-2011, 04:51

As TA has alluded to in his post, all food is GMO. Cows were not the killable, milkable food dispensaries that they are today back 10,000 years ago when civilization first began. Wheat of all kinds, rice, fruit, you name it. All of our food has been modified by human guided breeding and selection. 2,000 years ago a bunch of farmers had a bunch of steer have sex with one specific cow because it produced 5% more milk then most other cows. Today a bunch of geneticists take a gene from a fish who lives in freezing temperatures and put it in a tomato so it doesn't die during a harsh winter. It's the same thing, people only freak out because the possibilities are endless. Where breeding limits the amount of genes to what is present in the global population of that species, now any gene from any species can benefit any other species on this Earth.

that about sums it up.....

guided breeding is simply gmo's on a slower scale.

i wrote a 23 page university paper defending gmo's surprisingly interesting

**rory_20_uk** · 01-13-2011, 15:23

GMOs are not without some risk, mainly when pests get hold of certain genes - such as providing resistance to pesticides.

Bacteria can generally absorb DNA form wherever, and since most antibacterials are form bacteria or fungi this changes little directly.

The next frontier is not cutting and pasting in existing genes for certain proteins, but designing new, more efficient (at last from our rather bias perspective) ones and sticking that DNA in.