/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11358689]

What does /ck/ think of GMO products? You buy em or not?

Do they cause some illnesses like cancer or are they just harmful misunderstood gene editing for bigger yields etc.?

[Anonymous No.11358690]

>>11358689
No long term studies yet so no one has actual info, both sides are just speculating based on nothing. That said you'd have to be a fucking moon to eat them.

[Anonymous No.11358707]

I buy them. People have dogs that are the product of selected breeding (which makes them a gmo itself imo) so I see no reason for the anti science hype. I mean, we even have gmo-based enzymes in things like detergents and we're fine.

[Anonymous No.11358714]

>>11358707
Selective breeding is not exactly the same thing as inserting alien genomes to plants that have never existed them in an evolutionary sense.

[Anonymous No.11358725]

>>11358714
You are inserting genes from species A into genes from species B which have never even seen the gene to be inserted into the genome. The only difference is that with dogs, you employ Mendelian inheritance while with plants, you use tools on molecular scale.
One thing is widely accepted whereas the other one is frowned upon because it's slightly more complicated and because "muh scarey science man".

[Anonymous No.11358767]

>>11358725
Why do not we make a tree that would produce bananas, apples and corn at the same time like 4 times a year to solve world hunger

[Anonymous No.11358781]

>>11358767
I'm not sure if this would work. All those plants need different climates and soil and the more species you're trying to cross, the more delicate the process becomes in the lab. Your plants would also drain the soil out of nutrients VERY quick if you want to harvest four times a year.
One thing bioengineers have been working on for some time are corn plants which manage their water household better an thus can survive in more rough climates. It's a good start in the right direction. We might see some very fast development in the next 20 years.

[Anonymous No.11358786]

>>11358689
what do you think?

[Anonymous No.11358791]

>>11358786
Whoa, it's almost the same as the picture where they show overcooked eggs and ones that were done just right.

[Anonymous No.11358795]

>>11358689
its really bad when you realise not even CHINA wants USA GMO soy

[Anonymous No.11358799]

>>11358795
Yep.

But how do you reach retards that believe some jewish bearded old man created the world with spells?

[Anonymous No.11358802]

>>11358767
Because we can't. You clearly have no idea how genetics work.

>opposing GMO's
Anti-scientific retards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCK7W1Nl34A

[Anonymous No.11358804]

>>11358786
That picture is made of lies.

[Anonymous No.11358824]

>What does /ck/ think of GMO products?
Utterly indifferent.
It is a completely accidental quality to the products I buy, in that I will buy whichever product meets my requirements in quality and price, which usually ends up being something along the lines of "I'll buy this GMO milk because it's fucking milk" and "I'll buy this non-GMO lemon because it gives twice as much juice as the baseball-sized GMO lemon with a 2 inch thick peel".

Anti-GMO sentiment trite science denialism and ineffective anti-corporate rhetoric.
Pro-GMO sentiment is literally 100% ironic shitposting to upset the anti-GMO, crystal healing idiots.

[Anonymous No.11358941]

>>11358802
But doesn´t GMOs cause cancer though?

if they are safe why China and Russia have banned them?

[Anonymous No.11358943]

Non-gmo is a meme, the foods are safe. I hear Monsanto is pretty evil, though.

[Anonymous No.11358961]

>>11358689
GMO foods make it easier to grow more desirable fruits and vegetables, and more of them. This is something that may become more necessary in a world with over 7 billion people on it to feed. Moreover, most anti-GMO sentiment is based in speculation and a somewhat understandable hatred of the food industry in general, but little real evidence.

[Anonymous No.11358977]

>>11358941
Because both Russia and China are backwards shithole, бpaтишкa.

>>11358943
Never ever name-drop M., they literally will shit up any social media using their shills.

[Anonymous No.11360364]

>>11358689
I don't know if they're healthy or not. I haven't seen any convincing proof that transgenics are harmful, but it's not like the public would be told if they were (see tobacco, asbestos, leaded gasoline, etc).
But they ruin the variety in the market. Instead of multiple small farms, each with slightly different produce you'll have one FruitCorp(TM) with perfectly red, perfectly spherical apples immune to disease, parasites and most biological weapons.

[Anonymous No.11360376]

>>11358767
Thats called grafting and you can do it with some plants like apples and pears or hops and hemp

[Anonymous No.11360403]

>>11358977
Monsanto shill detected