Ok that’s the link on my site!

Oh wait, what am I talking about, that would be UNNATURAL!

        Radio Roy said:

As with anything new and especially considering that it is involved with something as important as the food supply, I’d expect any GM crops allowed on farms to first be tested very well to make sure they won’t have any unintended consequences like allergies in humans or spreading at a rate unwanted like a weed.

I also want to be sure there are good regulations in place.

If they’re proven safe first then I am 100% for seeing them on farms.

I agree they’re made of the same damn stuff and more importantly they could mean less need for land clearing and more reliable harvests.

Especially in areas that are poor or distant, if the plants need less water or insectaside or something that is very good news for those in the area who can’t get those things.

Every GM plant submitted for authorization is tested for its potential to trigger allergies. Every novel protein produced in a transgenic plant undergoes a rigorous allergy check. A concrete example for this was the development of a GM soybean that contained a gene from the Brazil nut, a plant that is known to cause allergies in some people. It was determined that a protein responsible for causing allergic reactions in the Brazil nut had been transferred and the development program was abandoned.

Soybeans like many plants have intrinsic allergens that present problems for sensitive people. Current GM soybeans, have not been shown to add any additional allergenic risk beyond the intrinsic risks already present. Now GM technology is being used to characterize and eliminate allergens naturally present in crops. It has been used to remove a major allergen in soybeans, demonstrating that genetic modification can be used to reduce naturally occurring allergenicity of food and feed.

        Deb said:

… Everyone who cares and knows feels the same way and they’re the ones I would like to listen to.

Why should I believe you?

You’re for it and that’s why I’m not about to trust you!

You would like to listen to those who say things you want to hear.

Congratulations, you are the perfect ecopawn.

        Jerry in Detroit said:

Actually, I have a problem when years of research are funded by public dollars then the seed company suddenly pops up & says the genome is patented. Publicly funded research should be open source.

Yes, and remember that a lot of us here agree that the law is not as good as it should be on this matter. I also can see how this could be a complicated issue though because if there is publicly funded research on general purpose genetics that does not yield one kind of seed or another, but it benefits research by a company.

Like for example, what if an aircraft company builds a new airplane and they use published government research on airfoil types by the faa and NASA and other groups and they use that to help design the wings.

If they’re proven safe first then I am 100% for seeing them on farms. I agree they’re made of the same damn stuff and more importantly they could mean less need for land clearing and more reliable harvests. Especially in areas that are poor or distant, if the plants need less water or insectaside or something that is very good news for those in the area who can’t get those things.

        Deb said:

All I know about it is the ppl who really care about the earth and the future and being sustainable are all against it for good reasons. I’m not an expert on it and I bet anyone who wants it either isn’t or maybe they are and get paid for it, but those of us who care about it can tell you every environment group that looked at it saw the problems right away! Everyone who cares and knows feels the same way and they’re the ones I would like to listen to.

Why should I believe you?

You’re for it and that’s why I’m not about to trust you!

How dare you presume I do not care for this planet? Who are you to judge me in that manner?

Unlike you I do have enough education to understand these things and it is my considered opinion that unless we want to see suffering on an unprecedented scale both from privation and the subsequent wars that always have historically followed such events, we had better use the tools that technology has made avalable to us to avoid what is coming.

Worse, in your case I suspect you haven’t had a hungry day in your life (and I don’t mean ‘ready for dinner’) that wasn’t self-inflicted. You have stuffed your mouth on the efforts of others, and now you arrogate yourself as judge of who shall eat and who shall starve based on nothing more than the incredibly stupid, narrow-minded, and unworkable ideology of those as ill-informed and as stupid as you are.

Pull your head out of your butt and grow up; real problems need real solutions, not imaginary ones.