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Peace. Hey, I'm an old man suffering from gout. Be nice.@Pr. Jae once again the reply is to CH. And the comment being replied to is in Mendalla's post (#39)
I'm tired of the chemophobia/sciencephobia.
If something is labelled as a GMO, what extra information are you getting?
So many foods you don't even know what strain you're getting to start with. Saying it's a GMO without giving the specifics is meaningless.
http://petition.ndp.ca/the-food-you-eat
Yeah, usually it's the Green that does this kind of thing. The sad thing is these types of ideas will probably gain them some support.Green is guilty of that, too. Not sure about the Libs. The Conservatives are, of course, too far the other way, trusting business to "do the right thing" which is patently not what businesses do.
Is it chemophobia that caused the EU to ban all GMOs?
Conspiracy theories that causes cattle grazing picked Bt-cotton fields to die?
Is it chemophobia that caused the EU to ban all GMOs?
Conspiracy theories that causes cattle grazing picked Bt-cotton fields to die?
You're defining both incorrectly. Genetic modification is a fairly broad term. GMOs would include hybrids as well as organisms that have been genetically engineered.Also, I hope that everyone understands the difference between genetic engineering (the detailed cross pollination which gives us a new variety of Echinacea and a bright new petunia every year) and genetic modification, whereby a completely foreign gene (resistance to a herbicide, usually, so that one can spray hell out of the crops with roundup) is spliced at the cellular level (somewhat inaccurately, which causes some different proteins to form because the DNA sequence is interrupted somewhat randomly) into an existing gene. Absolutely different things, and the latter is the one that concerns people, especially scientists in the EU.
What is genetically modified (GM) food? Essentially, a GM food is one derived from an organism that has had some of its heritable traits changed. This can involve:
- Traditional techniques of crossbreeding.
- Using chemicals or radiation to alter the genetic make-up of the organism's cells in a process called mutagenesis.
- Applying recombinant DNA or genetic engineering techniques - for instance, introducing a gene from one species into another species.