klongtoey

some are bad, some are good, some are fucking terrible.

Lobotomy

Well, that's just it, isn't it? GMO crops aren't the problem, the additives are. If I could make a strawberry yield that was 20x the size of a normal one by changing some gene expression here and there, you bet I would. Pesticides and Monsanto products are what you should look out for, not GMO, necessarily.

Look at the Chiquita, or 'modern', Banana. That never existed in nature, as natural bananas have marble sized seeds in them. Now, this type of banana is putting its progenitor out of business.

I don't want pesticides in my food, either, but you have to understand that ALL PRODUCE, whether you like it or not, is GMO. It's been done for nearly a thousand years now.

RedditIsPropaganda23

Too bad every single gmo has cancer causing glyphosates in the plant itself.

Lobotomy

I am not even a little bit convinced of that. Not every GMO is a Monsanto product.

Pawn

ding ding ding this is the correct answer. I dare someone to find an organism that isn't genetically modified through natural means or artificial selection.

twentyfive

Combination of species doesn't happen in the wild.

Pawn

uh yes, yes it does. Do some research before you say false things. It might be rare, but I'm pretty sure when pollen flies around in the spring it could certainly cause at least 1 cross between compatible species. Hell ever heard about africanized honey bees?

twentyfive

do you think scorpions can pollinate a plant?

twentyfive

your logic, i could go fuck a goat, and have half human-half goat babies. this doesnt happen

twentyfive

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/cross-pollination.htm

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/species

bees are the same "familiy" or whatever its called, perhaps invest in a dictionary

look at dogs

Pawn

lmao you failed at determining which species are compatible and I guess reading comprehension. I'll copy the relevant information so you get a chance to read it again and hopefully it'll sink in.

"..but I'm pretty sure when pollen flies around in the spring it could certainly cause at least 1 cross between compatible species"

humans and goats are not compatible. Scorpions and plants are not compatible. A compatible species would be something like cross breeding two kinds of honeybee. Now you have a hybrid species. Humans are hybrid species to an extent too, early humans interbred with the Neanderthals, and several other hominids to produce modern human.

Notice how a dog and a wolf are two species but both can breed and produce healthy pups. They are called wolfdogs.

Now to create a better plant we take two of them, and we select for certain traits. Make them grow better, more disease resistance, more food! This process is slow and time consuming as you must wait for plant maturity and for the plant to display all of it's traits. Instead we turbocharge the process by editing the DNA ourselves. You already eat gmo, and you'll probably eat gmo for the rest of your life. gmo is everywhere, ever-present, and everlasting much like government spying.

twentyfive

DO YOU KNOW WHY, AGAIN READ THE DEFINITION OF WHAT A SPECIES IS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

NOW GO FUCK OFF

Pawn

lmAOOOO sounds like you got no argument little negro.

twentyfive

no, its taxonomy, you should learned this in a third grade. If two different natural orgasims can reproduce and create fertile offspring they are classified under the same species. the hiearchy goes further in subspecies (which your ignorant ass must be confused with) to others.

my comment being that species cannot be cross naturally... IS THE PURE FUCKING DEFINITION OF THE WORD SPECIES YOU FUCK

Pawn

lmaooooo sounds like you ran out of arguments and now are focusing soley on wordplay. Hush child, the retarded like you need to let us adults talk.

twentyfive

im done, if you want to call the color red, blue more power to you. admit youre wrong . and do your own fucking research you nitwit

Lobotomy

I am really not convinced that GMOs are inherently bad, and I never will be. I know enough about genetics/genomics/microbiology to know that the only way that GMO foods can be bad would be corporate influence and corporate influence only.

RedditIsPropaganda23

what the fuck do you think they are in the business for besides profit?

Dysnomia

and I never will be

Checks username.. Figures.. Yeh, that makes sense.