To: opentalk
I have never taken much interest in all the GE and GMO food discussions, largely because many people who are on a campaign against them come at me like psychos.
The original "genetic engineering" was natural cross-breeding, from which we got sweet corn and better cows. It was a guided process, but using natural plants/animals.
It is a bit disturbing to think that first they developed chemicals guaranteed to kill plants, then they developed plants that can kill insects, then they developed plants that can resist the plant killers...I am a bit worried about the mad scientists and their good intentions.
5 posted on
05/30/2013 7:47:12 AM PDT by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Sender
“I have never taken much interest in all the GE and GMO food discussions, largely because many people who are on a campaign against them come at me like psychos”
I appreciate your point. however, dear FReeper, this is the time to start taking interest. They opened a Pandora’s box
7 posted on
05/30/2013 7:49:04 AM PDT by
surroundedbyblue
(Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
To: Sender
It is a bit disturbing to think that first they developed chemicals guaranteed to kill plants, then they developed plants that can kill insects, then they developed plants that can resist the plant killers...I am a bit worried about the mad scientists and their good intentions. Exactly, Sender. Where will it end? Disease? Weakened immune systems? Mutations?
10 posted on
05/30/2013 7:54:26 AM PDT by
Veto!
(Opinions freely expressed as advice)
To: Sender
Why do you assume they have good intentions?
46 posted on
05/30/2013 9:28:18 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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