I doubt I'll ever be on board with GMOs.  I don't want them and  I wouldnt offer them to anyone (that I actually liked).  However, with that being said... the research and studies are fascinating.

~ Greener today than I was yesterday!

Great article by the way.

 

 I just can't help but be against almost anything genetically modified though. It's terribly creepy and obviously, well, unnatural. I also think that the cons overrule the pros in this case. I sincerely feel that this should be left alone and we shouldn't really interfere with the natural course of organisms, one thing is evolution and another is actually getting in there and mutating plants or animals ourselves.

 

Thanks for the excellent info, stay green. :) 

The idea of GMO's are good and relavent, but I dont think that the con's tilt the scale in a possitive dirrection. Yes we do want to help our enviorment and people of our world, but are we willing to take a risk on genetically altering foods to do that? Risking people and possibly animals lives?

Everything was made unique for a reason. And we should keep it that way!

It obviously sounds wrong and its' controversy will indisputably scare many people off, but if genes can be manipulated in this way to make crops grow in marginal areas, then it's not such a bad thing because don't we all want to get rid of world hunger? But of course one can only speculate if it will in fact be used to serve the third world.

 

 

It's beyond what nature intended! If scientists cross breed a crop with an insect to make it bug resistant than we are literally eating a crop part insect–a mutant crop!

GMO crops become super weeds taking over the natural environment, we can't rotate crops, the land becomes exhausted.... and the GMO crops won't die ever!

Do what you can to eat organic, our bodies and our brains need real food, not chemically inflicted food that doesn't naturally occur on our planet.

Eat organic! Put it to the test and you'll feel like new person!

There is absolutely no PRO to this issue.  The UN Environmental Program only promotes it because (I will theorize ) that they may get some kind of kicker to promote it from the big food companies.  Just like we send all of our tainted vaccines to other countries. Let's dig deeper and follow the money trail.  They are getting our trash! We have no idea what the long term effects of consuming and producing the GMO crops are.  Almost 100% of our conventional corn, wheat and soy are GM.  If you do not eat organic beware! Is it not enough that our children are being injected withtoxic vaccines that have other organisms DNA in them, the  food companies want to continue to alter our food and at what cost? There are other ways to help developing countries and this is not one of them.  Just say no to GMO! 

 

Peace,Little Miss Sunshinewww.SunshineOrganics.net

According to a really helpful paper i read, "Ecological and Social Impacts of Fast Growing Timber Plantations and Genetically Modified Trees", GE trees (which are GMOs):

• herbicide use: Dr. Charles Benbrook found that growers of RoundUp resistant soy increased their overall pesticide use by 11%.
• insect resistance: the World Wildlife Fund reported: "Bt crops will augment the selection pressure placed on target pests and...will inevitably lead to an increased frequency of Bt resistance genes within insects' gene pool."

• according to Nature, Bt was found by researchers to exude from plant roots, bind to soil, and remain in an "active, lethal state" for more than seven months mainly due to high concentrations needed for the Bt crops' success.

you can find this paper and more information at: www.dogwoodalliance.org

I believe GMO has impacted our society in many great ways. Here is two main ones:

First off, medicine. Most anti-biotic, enzymes, vitamins, vaccines etc are produced by GMO. There just isn’t enough time and resources to produce these medicine. Furthermore, because it is produce in a lab setting, it can be monitored closely.

Secondly, it saves a lot of resources. Take for an example cheese. Most cheese requires an enzyme to change milk into cheese. This enzyme is found naturally in a goat's stomach. Meaning you need to store the milk in a calf's stomach to make cheese. I personally think that is rather unhygienic and very impractical (I mean how many calves are you going to kill?). Fortunately most cheese company thinks so also. Most of the cheese on the market, in US anyways, are made using an enzyme produced from a GE microorganism. The only cheese not produce that way are organic cheese which are produce in the traditional way (in a calf stomach) or vegetarian cheese where the enzyme is produced from a fungus but tastes different. Overall, most GE crop is made because of better yield or just uses less resources, ie water, soil, pesticides.

As for cross pollination, isn’t that a problem in general? Agricultural crops in general are a danger to biodiversity. Historically, agricultural plants are selectively picked because they have a much higher yield. GMO is the same thing just more effectively. Having GMO does not introduce a new danger when the danger of cross pollination is already there. Just because the plant is a GMO does not mean it would have a greater chance of being cross-pollinated than any other agricultural plant.

Furthermore, GMO does NOT mean it is toxic. GMO is genetically modified organism. By recombination, it only changes a particular gene or two (depending on the phenotype) to make the organism a more useful organism. This recombinant process does not produce any toxins. Furthermore, GE food are tested before it ever goes on the market as like other food and to make sure its properties is like others.

Most GMO's are toxic because they are sprayed with pesticides. They are not pure in form either, so you may not be getting all the nutrients and antioxidants as nature intended. I am reading this fascinating book

Omnivores Dilemma.  Fascinating stuff.

 

Just because it is tested does not mean it is safe or healthy. Do not be fooled. 

 

 

www.sunshineorganics.net

www.holisticmoms.org

www.nvic.org

 

We don't actually like GMO but here's the thing, we don't also know what it's all about. We were just informed by someone that it's not good. So we're just staying on the safe side because it's not good to regret in the end. The pros usually focus on the advancement of technology but would it do good to all of the people? That's our main concern.

The use of GMOs has sparked significant controversy in many areas.Some groups or individuals see the generation and use of GMO as intolerable meddling with biological states or processes that have naturally evolved over long periods of time, while others are concerned about the limitations of modern science to fully comprehend all of the potential negative ramifications of genetic manipulation.

I prefer to eat naturally grown produces.

 

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I always try to eat organic foods. The cost is quite prohibitive somethimes though, but prices are coming down.

 

A recent editorial in Scientific American, reveals the shocking and alarming reality behind the proliferation of GMO products throughout the food chain of the planet since 1994.  If you are interested in learning more about GMO's, it is certainly worth checking out.  It was the August 2009 issue, if I am not mistaken.

The idea of GMO's are good and relavant, but I dont think that the con's tilt the scale in a possitive dirrection. Yes we do want to help our enviorment and people of our world, but are we willing to take a risk on genetically altering foods to do that? Risking people and possibly animals lives?

I'm defintiely against GMO. Just the fact that Monsanto & Co have purposely deceived consumers and farmers over the years gives me sufficient reason to belive there's something wrong with this path. The fact is that we as men have been used to natural foods for thousands of years so how can we expect our bodies and own genetic make up to adapt to GMO within just a few short years? It would take several generations at least and I very much doubt that our bodies would be in a higher evolved healthy state then. Probably quite the opposite!

There have been studies that show a direct relation to GMO crops and the 100%  disappearance of Monarch Butterflies-

 http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2191