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- MokeyAUS, on 06/13/2009, -0/+15Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew......
- impei, on 06/13/2009, -0/+12In a medium size, unpeeled, oven baked potato, there is ...
* As much fibre as in 6 dried prunes
* As much Vitamin C as in 2 apples
* As much protein as in ½ cup of milk
* More Vitamin B1 than 1 cup of whole-wheat spaghetti
* Twice as much potassium as in 1 banana. - NMRgentleman, on 06/13/2009, -1/+12Global seed vault: http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=21 ...
- inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+8Question: So what exactly did the Irish eat before Europe discovered America? Actually, I think about things like that a lot - potatoes, tomatoes, corn, turkey... Just can't imagine life without all those delicious New World foods.
- bigguy434, on 06/13/2009, -0/+6Go Quechua Indians of Peru...can you imagine a world without potatoes?
Ron Nichols - ontain, on 06/13/2009, -0/+5wow I always heard of this talked about but it's almost unusual to see such positive and forward thinking ideas actually get funding.
- tgc1, on 06/13/2009, -2/+7All joking aside, I find it rather terrifying at the notion that one day all of the crops on earth may be seeded by genetically modified crops. Thereby leaving them open to some sort of apocalyptic strain of crop death that inevitably renders all food in the world inedible. Thereby leaving us all going crazy figuring out what the ***** we're going to eat. And some small group, somewhere, with crops enough just for their village to continue on. And the rest of us chumps to die of starvation for our ignorance and handing our futures, lives and well beings over to large corporations like Monsanto.
- stutimandal, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4Anyone who is not ready to thank nature and earth for ample amount of food is an ingrate.
- tgc1, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4Genetic Modification and Specialized Breeding is not the same thing.
- Hillsfar, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4The agribusinesses grow less than a dozen or so varieties of potatoes. That's out of the thousands of varieties that exist.
That's a lot of genetic mono-cropping vulnerable to a disease like the one kicked the Irish potato famine.
A single Quechua Indian's field may contain dozens of genetically diverse varieties that aren't related to those in his neighbors' fields. In fact Quechua farmers grow 9 species of Andean tubers. - regeya, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4http://www.potatoes.com/Nutrition.cfm
- barryiggins, on 06/13/2009, -0/+3Holy Huarochiri Manuscript, Batman!
- regeya, on 06/13/2009, -0/+3Oh, shut up. You think you're funny, but you're not. :->
- inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2Give it to us raw, and wriggling.
- palehorse864, on 06/13/2009, -1/+3If this works out, we could make potatoes the world's staple food that we all rely on. Nothing will ever go wrong with relying on potatoes for survival.
- askantik, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2Uh, Monsanto didn't fund the Svalbard seed vault. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_ ...
Construction of the Seed Vault, which cost approximately 45 million Norwegian Kroner (9 million USD),[2] was funded entirely by the Government of Norway.[2] Storage of seeds in the Seed Vault is free of charge. Operational costs will be paid by Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust.[2] The primary funding of the Trust came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United Kingdom, Norway, Australia, Switzerland, and Sweden, though funding has been received from a wide variety of sources including four developing countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, and India.[3] - askantik, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2Norway helped fund this, as well as their efforts on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_ ...
- dhughes, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2 From my tiny home province of Prince Edward Island, Canada (we produce a helluva lot of potatoes here!) I tip my hat to them.
- daonlyfreez, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2All true, but not trans-species.
If you combine spider genome with plant genome, you are crossing borders that would most certainly not have happened in nature, nor through breeding or otherwise. Not in a BILLION years like that!
Nobody knows the long term effects of these experiments, and letting them loose in the wild, just because big, influential companies like profit, doesn't sound like a good idea to me either.
There is a big difference between selective breeding and trans-species genetic experiments. - morepowerr, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2http://survivalseedbank.com/
Something to think about. And Hemp. - askantik, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1tgc1, I <3 you for not being retarded. So many people are like, "You fools, everyone knows we've been genetically modifying for a long time." Err, technically, yes, but in quite a different way than the present-day connotation of "genetically-modified" infers.
- colonelcupcake, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1... against aliens
- cowsgonemadd3, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1Whats taters eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_01rYKQLg - fury420, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1as a company who's livelihood is derived from modifying existing plant species to introduce desired disease/chemical/pest resistance characteristics & producing chemicals that work in tandem, It is in their best interests for seedbanks to exist and preserve existing crop biodiversity so that they will continue to have a wide variety of genetics available to work off of as a base for their GM crops
- daonlyfreez, on 06/13/2009, -1/+2That's nice and all, but Monsanto funding this, gives me a - shall I say "quirky" - feeling about this.
- canvashinder, on 06/13/2009, -1/+1Until the next potatoe blithe.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -1/+1This is why I don't read Mother Jones anymore.
Irrational fear mongering sucks. - morepowerr, on 06/13/2009, -1/+1Some hemp would be nice to.
- Ymeg, on 06/13/2009, -2/+2Norman Borlaug saved 1 billion + lives due to his role in genetic modification.
Biology does not work like that. Modifying crops so they can withstand heat, cold, lack of water, etc is not going to produce some virus that will destroy the world. Humans are going to rely on genetic crops, and the apocalyptic predictions of soothsayers will not change that. - TheFuzzyOne, on 06/13/2009, -4/+2/facepalm
- Lazydriver, on 06/13/2009, -5/+3Source? Or are you talking out of your ass?
Genetically modified foods exist. They've existed for thousands of years. Matter of fact, BILLIONS.
Even artificial intervention has lasted thousands of years. Cross-breeding, killing off plants that were too small, and so forth. - nroose, on 06/13/2009, -6/+1Potatoes taste good, and are cheap and easy to produce, but they don't really provide any nutrition. We are much better off focusing on food that is actually good for us!
- charlie55, on 06/13/2009, -7/+2dont forget the profit-making capitalist farmers. they are keeping potatoes going as well.
