How can you make that statement? There are some DNA crosses within GMO that mix various viruses with the plant DNA so that when an insect consumes the plant that the virus reacts with the insect body and causes the insect body to generate toxins. There are serious questions as to what happens to human DNA as we consume that same plant.

Of course this cannot be know fully as if it has been tested at all, the tests have been hidden. Also, has there been long term test on the effects to mammals, specifically human? In all probability, absoluteky not or at least not for publication.

GMO Facts, The Non-GMO Project is a non-profit organization with a mission of protecting the non-GMO food supply and giving consumers an informed choice.

Fear is used in different ways. GMO corn has contaminated much of the native corn in Mexico. I fear the loss of biodiversity caused by cross pollination of GMO crops with native species. I fear the effects of one entity, such as Monsanto, owning the rights to much of our food crops. I fear the damage Monsanto has done to small farmers who want to grow their own planting seed. I fear the influence Monsanto's money has done to congress and the courts in the manipulation of our food supply and the rights to own lifeforms.

I have hear Monsanto being likened to the Neighbor who spray-paints hi House Red,messes up your Property with the Over-spray,then drags you into Court for stealing his Paint.

Here we still have a Moratorium on growing that Stuff!
Requires a Nationwide Referendum to crack that!
Only ones growing that Stuff,in Quarantine is the E.T.H. the Federal Institute of Technology!
I have nothing against GMOs,but a way has to be found to prevent the contamination with the Native Species,before it is grown along other Crops,anything else is gross irresponsibility!

I have found only one good thing coming from GMOs.....

Thanks to the growth hormones now used in meat stocks like chicken, cattle, hogs, etc, girls are developing larger breasts and at an earlier age

Where were they when I was in school and could enjoy such things!

The problems with GMOs is they sacrifice nutrition for quantity so man-made chemicals and vitamins are substituted. Color, taste, quality, everything changes!

How's your coffee and cocoa tasting these days? And corn and other vegetables? Nothing is appetizing any more! Bread used to go bad in a few days forming mold, now, it can sit on a counter for weeks and never mold.

Nothing tastes the same, gives natural nutrition, or fills you up. It only makes you feel bloated and causes obesity and eating disorders..... and cancer!

I'm kind of intrigued with the group of botanists in San Francisco who've spliced the DNA of a fireflies to produce glowing plants, with the idea of replacing street lights with bushes and trees...





http://www.glowingplant.com/

Yes, well i do not concider myselve as someone that knows a lot about this matter. But how does someone splice DNA from an insect to a plant ? I mean are insects and plants compatible this way ?

Yes! I hear they can also solve the problem with street people!

...and then there were the Triffids!!

I know absolutely nothing about it, which is why I included a hot link to their site so others could read all about it, first-hand.


Pretty sure DNA-splicing happens frequently in scientific experimenting; perhaps you're wondering how does a firefly have sex with an oak tree and create glowing acorns,


which would - probably - be difficult to do.

I try and stay away from them... Strawberries never looked that way when I was a kid and the flavor isn't the same.... And the tomatoes are flavorless ..


At WalMart they have GMO fishing worms that glow green..... Not so sure id eat a fish that ate a glowing worm....

Yes, but it would make a great new topic.

Has anyone tried GMO vagina? Just wondering.

I made two statements, which are you questioning?

The 2nd statement is abundantly evidenced by the mountains of BS being promoted by the anti-GMO crowd.

I'm sure you heard about the study which some anti-GMOers seem to think proves that gmo corn causes tumors.

There is no evidence that GMO corn causes tumors, not in humans or mice.

If you aren't happy with the degree of testing that's done on gmos, thats fine. Lobby for more testing. If you aren't happy with the transparency, that's cool, lobby for more transparency.

If you are opposed to most of the gmos designed to make pesticides more cost-effective, that's cool, I'm right there with you!

But even a cursory read of anti-gmo sites shows that there is a massive effort afoot to lie to people, and convince them that all gmos are scary and evil.

I had in mind the idea that gmo foods are by categorically more dangerous to human health than non-gmo foods. There is no real evidence of this, but there is a massive amount of scare-mongering in this direction.

That said, I fully agree with what you say above, and very strongly agree with the following:



In my opinion, Monstanto and companies like them pose a real threat to human well being.

I love capitalism, but when massive corporations have the power to buy government policy, lay claim to genes which have always existed, and act to make humans fully dependant on them.... this is a sickness. This is dystopia.

Yes, exactly. This entire business model should be shut down.

I don't care if it decreases the incentive for gmo research. I don't care if it slows down 'progress'.

Some things, by their nature, are meant to be shared, not owned.

Yes, actually viruses have been doing this (moving genes from one species to another) longer than humans have been around.

There is no intrinsic problem with moving genes from one species to another, and we shouldn't automatically assume the worst when this is done.

Now, some *specific* attempts to move genes from one species to another can yield bad results.

For example, most of monsantos research seems to be dedicated towards (a) making their operations more cost effective and (b) making people dependant on them.

I don't want any genes put into seeds which are going to make farmers dependant on monsanto.

This glowing plants are cool!

Since a lot of place rip out vegetation in order to make the area safer at night (With the idea that rapists and muggers hide in bushes)... well maybe they can just use glowing bushes. Who can hide in a glowing bush?

Yes, they have. Since the only thing necessary to make one is the inability to say "no",


the perfect vagina is called "your own hand".


You're welcome...and enjoy!!!

Not all GMOs are bad.

"A humble soil bacterium called Ralstonia eutropha has a natural tendency, whenever it is stressed, to stop growing and put all its energy into making complex carbon compounds. Now scientists at MIT have taught this microbe a new trick: They’ve tinkered with its genes to persuade it to make fuel — specifically, a kind of alcohol called isobutanol that can be directly substituted for, or blended with, gasoline.

Christopher Brigham, a research scientist in MIT’s biology department who has been working to develop this bioengineered bacterium, is currently trying to get the organism to use a stream of carbon dioxide as its source of carbon, so that it could be used to make fuel out of emissions."

And from UCLA

"Researchers at UCLA have opened a path to cheaper and cleaner biofuels by using genetic engineering to fundamentally change how certain organisms process sugar.

Conventional biofuels are either too expensive to compete with fossil fuels or they release so much carbon dioxide that they’re hardly worth making—or both.

The UCLA advance, which increases the amount of biofuel that can be made from sugar by 50 percent, could make it cheaper to produce biofuels from a variety of sources, especially biomass such as wood chips and grass. The U.S. biofuels industry is in desperate need of such advances—even though Congress has mandated that a certain amount of biofuel from biomass be blended with gasoline, high costs and other factors have limited production, leading the EPA to repeatedly waive the requirement."

Yes, GM is a wonderful technology!

For any *particular* situation, though, we should ask ourselves?

Who is doing it?
Why are they doing it?
What do they stand to gain?
What do the rest of us stand to gain?


I feel that most (not all) GMO work done by monsanto and companies like them is bad news. We'd be better off as a species not doing it at all.

Yet most (not all) GMO research done using government grants at university is either neutral or positive.