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GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It
biobricks writes "A New York Times story says the Florida orange crop is threatened by an incurable disease and traces the efforts of one company to insert a spinach gene in orange trees to fend it off. Not clear if consumers will go for it though." The article focuses on oranges, but touches on the larger world of GMO crop creation as well.
Show many ANY time in nature where plants have modified themselves with ANIMALS and FISH and then and ONLY then will I buy your bullshit, because in case you ain't been keeping up on current events they have been mixing everything from starfish to grasshopper into plants to increase yields and make them grow larger.
You might also want to look up "shotgun DNA GMO" to see how completely fucked up their splicing is, they take a LOT more genetic material than they actually want and fire it into the cell. What will all the extra do? Will it cause mutation down the line? They don't know and from the way they have been acting really don't seem to give a fuck and why should they? they can simply bribe the white house or congress, just like Cheney's buds at Halliburton did when they bought that asbestos company and were allowed to get all the assets while dumping the cleanup and liability on the taxpayer. Must be nice to be able to buy your way out of anything like that.
The one and ONLY one place where I would agree to this is where you are looking at total extinction, such as the case for bananas,which for those that don't know we only have a couple of Big Mike banana plants in a small greenhouse in South america (this is where the "yes we have no bananas" song came from, the wiping out of the Big Mike in the 1920s by Palm Blight) and it looks like the blight is adapting to the inferior Cavendish that we had to use as a replacement. if gene splicing would bring back the Big Mike, which is superior in every way, and save the Cavendish? Then and ONLY then would i be for this, because its a choice of that or nothing.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Something isn't natural because WE messed with it. Quit your straw-man bullshit. It never was about it being good because it is natural. It was about it being BAD because it ISN'T.
That is, because our body had millions of years, to adapt to it, and deal with it. But with what we changed, it had ZERO time.
Of course genetic modifications can be good or bad, or even both. But AGAIN, that's not the point! (Arguing besides the point is SO typical of industry lobby bullshit, I can smell it from 5000 miles away. Especially with straw-man arguments.)
It is about that we DON'T KNOW.
The only thing we do know, is that our bodies had ZERO time to shift the good/bad ratio towards good. Zero.
So it is much more likely to be bad than anything natural.
(Where "natural" includes those natural things we know are good because we ate them for ten thousand years and thrived.)
Example: Stevia: Used for >5000 years. Nothing of any way happened that made our lives worse when using it.
Aspartame: Used for <50 years. Made by a company with the trustworthiness and ethics of Dr. Mengele, known for countless acts of mind-boggling evilness. A source of phenylalanine. Conclusively shown to cause diseases. As if it wasn't already blatantly obvious to any biochemist out there who looked at its formula once.
Yet you probably believe that Stevia is "bad" because you cling to that one Monsanto "study" where it caused reproductive problems in mice. Even though that only happened, after they gave those mice half their body weight of Stevia *per day*. An amount where even water becomes gravely life-threatening! Let alone salt.
But you don't want to hear that. Because it's not knowledge with you. It's belief. (An American staple.) From what you have been told. And you don't actually know why you think that way. So you must cling to it even harder! Otherwise (you think) you'd have to hate yourself and how you fell so easily for such gigantic bullshit.
Typical American industry-brainwashed bullshit again.
And I really hope you die from it. Painfully.
Stupid of that magnitude deserves punishment by natural selection.