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- Murraythenut, on 06/29/2009, -1/+18You should have put {The Onion} in the title. The current submission title is boooooooring
- vacax, on 06/30/2009, -0/+15Stop buying produce at Wal-Mart.
- SEN5241, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10I likes me some good Tomacco.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9Can they cross a carrot with a cucumber? We will call it the cucumrot. That sounds disgusting...
- purag66, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9We have been genetically selecting for bigger and more colorful food for centuries now.
Wheat through time : http://www.foodmuseum.com/images/wheatgeneticscove ...
Now we use recombinant DNA technology to accelerate such changes, and suddenly such techniques are threatening... - inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+8Can't wait til Turducken is a real animal!!
- orangefly, on 06/30/2009, -1/+9Homer: This corn doesn't look so big..
Marge: That's baby corn! - digitalArtform, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7Safety is a red herring. The bigger issue is patents.
Wait until your free, open source bit of nature is replaced by something patented and GM'd sterile and you get suddenly locked into MegaCorp's yearly seed subscription. - inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6#3 is my favorite
- ownt790, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7you laugh now...
- ericthesalmon, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5GMO is mostly used to make growing the plants easier without much impact on the taste or appearance, the genes that control that are far more complicated.
Instead, those things have simply been selected the old-fashioned way (and as you say, to increase sales.)
An heirloom tomato with a Bt gene to keep insects from eating it will still taste great (to humans,) it's just the ***** mass-market varieties are the only things that get modified. - Ariss, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5I want to genetically modify my children (if I ever have any)
- MisterGnome, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Needs more bacon.
- Ariss, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Ouch! :P
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+5It tastes just like Grandma!
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4You gotta love The Onion. They make me laugh every day...
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3I like food. Food is good.
- edrodgers731, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3You are really good at watching movies.
- cfuse, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Monsanto is evil.
- fenux, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2While also making sure that the crop is infertile and the only way to plant it again the next year is buying new seeds (never mind that patents make it illegal to try and reproduce them any other way).
Also never mind that it effects the spread of unmodified crop that can reproduce because the unmodified crop tries to fertilize the gm crop.
After thousands of years we have mules, but luckily we still have horses and donkey's. If someone would engineer a mule in a lab, unable to reproduce and also effecting the reproduction of horses and donkey's it would be problematic. What we do by selective breeding doesn't have (as far as I know) effect on genetic diversity. - Chritto, on 06/30/2009, -2/+4I did find the post funny, though I am against GM food - especially with fruit like tomatoes here in Australia, there is no flavor any more. Often people have to resort to importing from overseas, getting canned tomatoes from italy etc.
Sure, they're bigger, redder, and ripen faster, but that's just a gimmick to increase sales. Genetically modified for increased flavor? Sure, I'd buy that.. - Gabberwok, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3I would want to genetically modify your children too...
- Moralogic, on 06/30/2009, -2/+4That is a topic I have extreme interests in. I want to genetically modify my kids too. Yeah I want them to be healthy, have strong bones, not be allergic to anything, and all that stuff, but more importantly I want them to be genetically modified to be as smart as can be, and one day help to improve the human race.
One day there will be the naturals, genetically modified, nano-tech modified, and genetically and nano-tech modified people in the world. The naturals saying all of the others are immoral, and the others saying the naturals are illogical. Much like creationism vs the civilized, educated world. - TINZUSA, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2When my salad shrieks and attempts to escape my dinner plate, I shall also get some free exercise with my meal. Now that's slimming!
- diggduggjoe, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3The problem I have with GMO is, it isn't precise cut and paste. They actually shoot the DNA together and odd unexpected genes may be placed into the genome. Then they test and see that the several genes they wanted worked, but the side effects will remain. The testing for such crops need to be much longer.
You cannot compare genetic engineered with human selection and breeding. The heirloom crops were made with what nature already had placed in the plant. Putting a fish gene into a strawberry would not occur naturally, unless they already shared that gene. I am not completely against GMOs, but my trust in agribusiness is not all that great. Just look at what they did to organic. - ZSparkman, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3***** Monsanto with a capital F.
- jaaames, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3That is just HORRIBLE.
Any parent willing to forgo potential laser eyes for ***** like "intelligence" and "health" should be tried for child abuse.
In related news, I'm still angry about what my parents did to my penis. - Scottamus, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Only took 6 years to get to the front page.
- ericthesalmon, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1The Onion is in reruns, today is Food week.
- hawk0168, on 06/30/2009, -1/+21. "Gene guns" are not the norm for recombinant technology anymore.
2. The testing for GMO food crops is so extensive you wouldn't even believe me.
3. The regulation on GROWING these crops is also very restrictive.
I'm heavily in favor of using and developing recombinant food crops, but I agree the level of testing always needs to be upheld/increased. - ZSparkman, on 06/30/2009, -2/+3The danger is in the fact that as humans are just now exploring the field of genetics, and do not fully understand the cause and effect behind this complex science, directly changing the genetic make-up of an organism that we consume could be VERY dangerous.
- purag66, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1@ diggduggjoe:
"Just look at what they did to organic." Can you please explain what that means?
Additionally, what do you mean the "side effects"? A couple of changes in nucleotide sequences are not going to affect people who consume GMOs. Of course, some of that DNA gets transcribed/translated into protein...which gets digested by stomach proteases--even denatured by heat if cooked.
Of course, there's the case of prions, but if prions come from inserted genes, that would be a great discovery in and of itself! We could finally build antibodies to protect people against mad cow disease, etc. - ericthesalmon, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1After two seasons? Lies
- Moralogic, on 06/30/2009, -2/+3Food is becoming genetically modified, but any fresh fruit and veggies I get at Walmart still go bad within a day or two, and about a quarter of the "fresh food" in Walmart is already bad.
- Lirvan, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1nice...
- skit4king, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1I am concerned because my corn may suddenly sprout two heads. Or if I eat it then I might suddenly sprout two testicles! ... that's two testicles more for the slow minded.
- cfuse, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1They don't want your genes either.
- spookyttws, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Come on Onion, you've been so good lately. What's this crap?
- Gabberwok, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1Sorry, you made it too easy. :-)
- cfuse, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1That's because you aren't factoring in the 6 months it has spent stored in deep freeze in a warehouse.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Brett Favre
- ShadowofAres, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1It's something from 2003, apparently.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2Mice fed on GM foods become sterile and unable to procreate in 3 generations. Humans are one generation into the eating of the modified foods. Children of Men anyone? My, the stork tastes damn good.
- khfn, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2From my understanding, a reason some are concerned with GM food products is it's not exactly always safe to eat. For example, I've read a study on a strand of GM potatoes that when consumed, cause the large intestines to grow abnormally. You are what you eat, and If you eat a tomato from Subway, it has the genes of a cockroach spliced with the genes of salmon so that it won't freeze in the winter, except that to get that one effect, thousands of other changes will undoubtedly occur. Who knows what they are. Plenty GM products are released while they're still in the experimental phase.
- directedition, on 06/30/2009, -1/+1and I'll still be laughing while The Onion keeps posting
- Mrbogart1984, on 06/30/2009, -0/+0I love how everyone thinks we're splicing corn with fish. We're doing the same thing we've been doing for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, just in a controlled lab setting. We aren't making half-crab half-cabbage monstrosities, we're making corn that makes more food per acre and is disease resistant.
- bboyjkang, on 06/30/2009, -3/+2"I want to genetically modify my children (if I ever have any)"
A strong reason to have kids is that they can support you when you're old
I was going to have kids
Instead, I'm just gonna save my money and genetically modify myself to not grow old
In that way, I don't need to waste my money on any future children I would've had - bugwayji, on 06/30/2009, -3/+2 Uhm, because of quotes like this from Scientists who are not on the GM food lobby group.
Dr. Peter Wills of Auckland University warns, “an incorrectly folded form of an ordinary cellular protein can under certain circumstances . . . [duplicate itself] and give rise to infectious neurological disease.”
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showA ... -
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