on 21-04-2015 07:44 AM
Bt, or bacillus thuringiensis, is a type of soil-dwelling bacteria that produces a protein toxic to many insects. Bt crops are engineered to produce the Bt toxin within the plant itself, acting as a built-in insecticide. Bt toxin kills crop pests by dissolving the insect’s gut lining.
Roundup Ready crops are engineered to be resistant to Roundup, a Monsanto brand of herbicide. The active ingredient in Roundup herbicide is glyphosate, a commonly used weed-killer.
I know very little about this topic. I'm Interested to hear what ya'll know or think about GMO foods.
21-04-2015 08:09 AM - edited 21-04-2015 08:09 AM
There is a third type......the introduction of animal dna into crop dna. Safflower and Carp Emlay and Associates created safflower that produces pharmaceutical proteins by genetically engineering the safflower with growth hormones from carp. USDA agreed in June 2003 for this crop to be grown on 11 acres in North Dakota and Nevada. Wheat and Chickens The University of Nebraska acquired three permits to grow field trials of wheat genetically engineered with chicken genes to produce fungal resistance. The field tests were authorized to occur between March 2002 and August 2003 in Nebraska. Rats and Soybeans The University of Kentucky used the genes of the Norwegian rat to alter the oil profile of soybeans. The test was authorized to begin in May 2003 on an acre in Kentucky and can continue until May 2004. The report disputes industry claims that they can insert foreign DNA into new species with great accuracy, and that the technology is merely an extension of traditional plant breeding. In May 2000, for example, Monsanto disclosed for the first time that its genetically engineered soybeans-their most widely used product, which has been on the market for four years-contained additional and unexpected gene fragments. Just one year later, Monsanto had to admit once again that additional unexpected DNA was discovered in the soybeans. "Despite very visible gaffes by the biotechnology industry, such as illegal corn in taco shells or unapproved genetically engineered livestock in the food supply, it is shocking to learn about experiments that put rat genes in soybeans and chicken genes in corn," added Caplan. "Because genetically engineered crops are poorly regulated and resulting food products carry no consumer label, consumers are all test subjects in a vast food experiment." http://www.rense.com/general44/cell.htm
Monsanto, et. al. vociferously denies that this is occurring.......do you really believe them?
The long-term ramifications could be disastrous.
The long-term ramifications
on 21-04-2015 08:10 AM
Genetically modified plants do not worry me. We all share some genes with plants and animals.
But plants modified so they can tolerate ever increasing amount of herbicides are a worry. That means that our food has been treated with more and more poisons.
on 21-04-2015 08:16 AM
Well, when your descendants grow gills and rat tails.........I'll be in the front row, going, "Na na na-na na".......
on 21-04-2015 08:24 AM
The long-term ramifications
Exactly Bandcamp. We do not know the long term ramifications. There are no studies to test the effects these GMO's are having on the human population. And as far as I know in America the food producers dont even have to label their foods if they are GMO.
Do you know anything about the "bee" genocide from a couple of years ago?
21-04-2015 08:39 AM - edited 21-04-2015 08:39 AM
@***super_nova*** wrote:Genetically modified plants do not worry me. We all share some genes with plants and animals.
Even though at this point there is no way of knowing what the long term effects of altering the genome of plants can have on a human population.
Hopefully Bandcamp has some knowledge of this subject, but when gmo's were introduced into a commercial honey bee population a couple of years ago 96% of the bees died. Remeber the honey shortage? That was caused by genetically modified plants.
on 21-04-2015 08:39 AM
Jackson County, Oregon, where I live, successfully passed a law that prohibits growing GMO crops, and a state-wide law requiring labelling wass narrowly defeated last year, after opponents (read: Monsanto and cronies) spent nearly $11 million.........
In Oregon, the bee population is seeing a resurgence......in fact, the city council yesterday passed a law permitting up to 3 hives per property plot.
on 21-04-2015 08:40 AM
@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:Well, when your descendants grow gills and rat tails.........I'll be in the front row, going, "Na na na-na na".......
you better stop eating fish if you are afraid of growing gills. 🙂
More important question is considering that humans share about 50% of their genes with bananas, is it canibalism to eat them?
We share about:
90% with chimps
88% with mouse
85% with cow
84% with dog
73% with zebra fish
69% with platypus
65% with chicken
47% with fruit fly
44% honey bee
38% round worm
24% grape wine
18% baker's yeast
on 21-04-2015 08:43 AM
@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:Well, when your descendants grow gills and rat tails.........I'll be in the front row, going, "Na na na-na na".......
And my gilled descendents will be swimming around peeing and swishing their rat tails in your water
on 21-04-2015 08:54 AM
And my gilled descendents will be swimming around peeing and swishing their rat tails in your water
Fortunately, not my water, which comes from an underground spring in the Big Butte watershed......