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To: opentalk
have taken a more scientific approach by actually investigating how the body processes foreign DNA

Unless you have a deep, dark secret, I hope all your food has foreign, non-human, DNA.

According to recent research from China’s Nanjing University,when people eat rice,tiny sequences of microRNA from the plant-based food can survive the body’s digestive process and end up absorbed in human tissue where—and here’s the reason why we need to know about this study —plant microRNA may actually affect how our cells behave and function.

OMG! We should stop eating plants immediately! And animals too, just to be safe.

118 posted on 05/27/2013 12:24:16 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
It's late May in Alabama and all the lettuce in my garden has gone to seed; I told my family I'm cutting it down and planting okra there.

My wife asked why I didn't just save the seed so I could replant it next year. I explained to her that the lettuce varieties I was growing are hybrids, which do not produce seeds true to type—you never know what you're going to get, and usually it's crap.

The lettuce I planted has been around for many decades now. Nobody complains about hybrids like they do about GMO. I do not think the plants “know” the difference.

All a GMO is an advanced way to breed a hybrid. Just because a person is scientifically stupid is no reason to protest a company going about its legal business.

120 posted on 05/27/2013 12:42:48 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Toddsterpatriot
OMG! We should stop eating plants immediately! And animals too,just to be safe.

we? You can freely eat GMO if you choose.

the informed choice not to, is being impeded

121 posted on 05/27/2013 12:49:01 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Toddsterpatriot
You left off... ,the genetic material from rice showed up in human liver cells where it appeared to influence cells’ uptake of cholesterol from the blood.
122 posted on 05/27/2013 12:57:43 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Toddsterpatriot; opentalk
"OMG! We should stop eating plants immediately! And animals too, just to be safe."

You are perhaps the least informed person to ever post on FR and arguably the most obnoxious.

137 posted on 05/28/2013 9:19:21 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been offically denied)
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