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Originally Posted by Seaver
Y'all are not getting how UNrevolutionary this is.
Great idea. So we get no beef, lamb, chicken, corn, wheat, rice, oats, soy, beans, vegetables or any seedless fruits.
Genetic modifications have occured since man first decided to take an active role in obtaining food. Do you realize the wheat you eat today are EXACT clones of wheat developed by the Romans? They found seeds from those times and in many instances they shared 99.99% DNA with the ancient seeds to modern (the differences being natual oddities). Do you realize they have used genetic modification to produce the hundreds of varieties of cattle through the ages since pre-history? Oh but the sky is falling!
By declaring you outlaw everything is rediculous. I dont know about you, but I enjoy seedless watermelons. If I were a farmer (many of my family are) I'd enjoy self-pestiside producing, larger, and faster growing food. As a consumer I like larger and cheaper products.
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There's a huge difference between what you're talking about, and what is being done. I have no problems with what the Romans did. What I do have a problem with is creating chimeras and engineering vaccines and pesticides into foods. You don't see a problem with crossing cockroach genes into corn or spiders into goats? How about human organs in pigs?
Their definetly needs to be firm governmental control on Genetically Modified Organisms until we can figure out what is being done, what can be done, and the long term pro/con consequences.