The Future Of Food

Well described. Very not-something-I-want-to-play-around-with yet. I am happy to use traditional breeding methods for our food.   See 13 other replies

yep, Roundup ready soybeans, the poster child for GM foods, are only about 20 years old and account for 90% of the total soybeans grown last year, where as previous years had dozens of seed companies and hundreds of varieties, both national and local. It's scary how quickly they've been implemented and what would happen if a blight came and wiped them out. We've had thousands of years to develop these crops from mere weeds to powerhouse plants that we depend on, all developed naturally from honest farming practices. Now some lab rats are using bacterias and viruses to splice fish jeans into Tomatoes and we're 'sposed to be thrilled? These things aren't regulated so there's no public testing to show for it, and as long as they can make a buck, companies aren't going to sit on a potential product to test it.   See 13 other replies

I'm amazed at the ignorance out there. Do the names Luther Burbank or George Washington Carver ring a 19th century bell over the issue of genetically engineered foods?
It's difficult to intelligently debate an issue when people ignore/ neglect history.   See 13 other replies

I don't need to read a scientific journal to tell me that we have never played around with plant genes before and we have no idea what we are doing. And I am wary of that creation.And I don't need a journal to tell me that it is insane to charge a farmer with patent infringement for having his corn unknowingly contaminated with GM seeds. And that if Monsanto wanted to they could la-de-da around sprinkling seed and then own all the produce in the USA. That is stupid. Yes I would like to see journal articles about human tests of these products. And more importantly, articles about the ethics of this kind of experiment and its possibilities.But I think that this movie is a pretty good start and has some, I would assume, irrefutable facts, that are concerning, regarding GMOs.I love science and I think that experimenting with genes is amazing. However, you don't screw around with stuff you know little about. Sure we can make an animal glow pink. But what else exactly does that pink glowing gene do? What else does having a foreign gene in your body do? The problem with this kind of science is that the scientists love doing it and the bosses love making money from it. We need to make sure we have people equally brilliant spending an equal amount of time figuring out the ramifications of these experiments.We only recently found out that eating oil with salad makes the nutrients more digestible. And we've had that food forever. Stuff can be delicate.Would I rather eat an organically farmed ear of corn or a GMO-built-in-pesticides or GMO-roundup-ready ear of corn? I would stick with the food that we have been eating for 70,000 years.Do I trust Monsanto and other GMO companies? No. And it's really not hard to do the right thing if you're doing the right thing.   See 13 other replies

True that. That's how George Bush junior got his seat as Commander in Chief. Even you Paul A. have a greater IQ than our former president.   See 13 other replies