But let's talk about what's really important...

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by Riot

Virtually everything we eat is "genetically modified", and has been for centuries. Every animal, every fruit, every crop.

When you take a tomato, and breed it to produce big tomato fruit - that's "genetically modified".

American Indians developing corn? Selection is "genetically modified".

Cows giving 20 gallons of milk a day? Their genes have been "genetically modified" by breeding selection.

I don't understand why people fear "genetically modified" foods - except they don't know what DNA and RNA are, and the terms are scary?

Or they don't understand how eating DNA and RNA from another animal - like a cow - doesn't turn you into a cow? But they think that eating cow DNA will alter their own DNA and cause cancer? While not understanding the concept of denatured proteins, how your own body treats foreign proteins, etc ....

Do you care at all what kind of food you eat??


Again, those who do, should be able to be given the choice to decide if it is an issue to them or not.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

Do you care at all what kind of food you eat??


Again, those who do, should be able to be given the choice to decide if it is an issue to them or not.

I eat very well, and everything I eat - and you eat - is already genetically modified, and has been for centuries. You or I cannot name one non-genetically modified foodstuff in our diets. I certainly cannot think of one.

Of course I care about the nutritional quality of what I eat, but the public panic over genetic modification stems more from public ignorance of genetics, than any actual factual concerns, in my observation.

The fear is over the words "genetically modified" - not over any factual thing that genetic modification has done. It's a scary term that Americans, who are bereft of any basic genetic class in high school, simply don't understand.

[herkhorse]

Originally Posted by Riot

I eat very well, and everything I eat - and you eat - is already genetically modified, and has been for centuries. You or I cannot name one non-genetically modified foodstuff in our diets. I certainly cannot think of one.

Of course I care about the nutritional quality of what I eat, but the public panic over genetic modification stems more from public ignorance of genetics, than any actual factual concerns, in my observation.

The fear is over the words "genetically modified" - not over any factual thing that genetic modification has done. It's a scary term that Americans, who are bereft of any basic genetic class in high school, simply don't understand.

It's OK just to shut up once in a while.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by herkhorse

It's OK just to shut up once in a while.