Shock! Sugar industry publishes 'research' that shows sugar is great

[Deleted member 16779]

Ah, that's what I probably remember, it would be protests that such a thing was being contemplated. It was the small farmer lobby, as I recall, who said they saved their seed. The article you've referred me to talks about the large scale operators not saving seed, which I can understand.

It's not even a problem for small farmers, they just don't really tend to do it - the 2nd generation seeds that they'd try to grow would start to differ from the originals and lose the good traits and degenerate.

 

[HOBIE]

I wonder what the arsenic makers would say in research

 

[Lilian]

Most of the milk you drink is from genetically modified cows. In the search for high yield, some scientists found cows with abnormal gene for excess milk production, so bred from those with the abnormal gene to spread it through the population of dairy cows, and these are gradually replacing normal cows, which now could probably not survive in the wild.

I wouldn't have the slightest qualm about eating food from GM crops, because scientifically, medically, there is no possible impact on human health. You digest these abnormal genes along with the normal, because they're made out of the same stuff, and your digestive enzymes aren't discriminatory. That fact must be bleeding obvious to anybody capable of thought.

I think you might be mixing up hybrid with GMO. Hybrid mixes the best of the genes of the same species. GMO uses different species which normally could not breed together.

 

[HOBIE]

I wonder what the arsenic makers would say in research

A salesman at the newspaper could come up with a storey about arsenic

 

[mikeyB]

I think you might be mixing up hybrid with GMO. Hybrid mixes the best of the genes of the same species. GMO uses different species which normally could not breed together.

The same comment applies to genes of different species. All get gobbled up by the digestive enzymes. I am perfectly aware of the difference between hybrid and GMO, and the millions of children eating genetically modified rice that contains Vitamin A, instead of the polished rice that contains none, will attest that it isn't dangerous. Only loopy conspiracy theorists think it is.

 

[Martin Canty]

Beware of GMO crops..... They might come back to bite!!!!

 

[HOBIE]

Good Martin . The day of the Triffords ?

 

[Martin Canty]

Yup

 

[Lilian]

I do not think the danger lies in the food itself but by the copyright of who owns it. It is not grown it is engineered. You are then in murky dangerous waters. It will become worse than who own oil. Since when have big companies or countries been altruistic.

 

[Deleted member 16779]

I think you might be mixing up hybrid with GMO. Hybrid mixes the best of the genes of the same species. GMO uses different species which normally could not breed together.

Well, strictly speaking selective breeding, hybridisation, and gene-splicing are all Genetic Modifications - GMO is just the most direct way of inserting precisely the gene that you want. Though it can come from a different species, it often comes from the same one.