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Genetically-Modified Everything
BreadMan writes "The Economist has an interesting article about how the use of GM (genetically modified) plants extends well beyond the food industry. Altered trees that make better paper, insect-resistant cotton, potatoes that contain the right kinds of starches. An interesting read to see where the industry is going in light of problems with having GM foods on the dinner table. There's more industrial uses for agricultural products than you'd think of right away, so this may be a lucrative use for GM technology."
And here I thought GM plants only produced vehicles... I tell you what, I learn something new every day
Hooray for modern medicine!
Dude, we need to like, put like, more THC in hemp. Cause them, it would be like....ummmm. Anyone got a Twinkie?
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What color was the chicken flesh originally?
Mark my words: once someone invents a way to have ordinary looking house plants produce your narcotic of choice, the drug war will finally be over.
Making them bright enough to be toilet trained would be nice too.
I don't know about pets that literally remain puppies or kittens, though. They need to grow up a little to be trained.
Fuck the cute little doggies. I'm all about having an anime catgirl that calls me "Goshujin-sama" and does all the cooking and cleaning.
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(so lonely
Catgirls.
Fah.
50 weeks out of the year they'll scratch you silly if you try to make a move on them, and when they *are* in heat you end up burned out and drooling while they go wandering around the neighborhood, yowling in frustration and dropping thong for anything with a Y chromosome.
Cleaning? Cooking?
Yeah, right.
Clean themselves, maybe, but you know who is going to be scraping the hair balls off the carpet, right?
And the way they run to your side and stare at you like you're God when you use the can opener, that's cute and gratifying at first, but after a few times you realize they're actually in awe of the can opener.
I've got an even better one: GM housecats to look like tigers, cheetas and leopoards. How much would you pay for a housecat that looked exactly like a bengal tiger?
He looks just like a bengal tiger, only 1/8th his size. I shall call him "Mini-mew".
there wouldn't be worries about the altered genes entering the natural ecosystem because of the sterility
Good God man! Didn't you see Jurassic Park?
He was a "gentist" for COORS. Put 2+2 together :-).
I, for one, don't think cats are particularly domesticated.
They do on the other hand seem to have an uncanny knack for domesticating humans.....
I, for one, welcome our new GM-plants overlords.
Because people are psychotic about getting rare stuff. We can make diamonds but can you buy them anywhere? No marketting would have us believe I want a real 24 carrat diamond but not a fake one. Why because the fake one is TOO perfect.
Well fook you! I want diamond claws!
As far as I know, human males don't fling their sperm into the air to fertilize females miles away.
Speak for yourself.
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