/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11177282
GMO is a sign that your food has been doused with tons of poisons. Better wash it off real good or in the case of processed foods, hope it was cleaned well during the manufacturing process.

>>11177282
they're great, but fuck monsanto.

GMO is a tool

whether that's use for good, or evil, depends on the people who use it.
Creating rice that's both fast growing and extra nutritious is good.
Creating corn that's toxic to humans before heavy processing and can be sprayed with 10 times pesticides is bad.

>>11177282
I'm avoiding GMOs because I think part of evolution is consuming genetic material in food we eat and being slowly augmented by it over generation.

>>11177343

>genetic material

You break down plant and animal matter and absorb starches/sugars, nutrients, and proteins (combined amino acids) most solid matter is excreted along with nitrogen wastes.

The "genes" are made up of bases that are found everywhere, there is nothing special or unique about them, the same as the proteins that thise genes encode for.

Anti-GMO is literally the 1950s "muh radioactive monsters" for modern retards.

>>11177301
Indeed

>>11177282
Only reliable way to grow sufficient enough food for continued human growth and stuck in a monopoly of giant corporations not interested in truly groundbreaking advances or low cost.

>>11177676

Or that retarded luddites continue to prevent groundbreaking new technologies from being adopted where they are needed most.

We are in the THIRD decade after golden rice was created and it still hasn't been allowed in most countries because of the GMO boogeyman.

>>11177676
The myth that humanity will run out of food seems completely unrealistic to people who have actually gone over the numbers. This planet could probably feed half a trillion people, but it never will because other factors limit the population to numbers much smaller than the planet's feeding capacity.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php

>>11177690
Calhouns research doesn't mesh well with the reality seen in cities.

>>11177282
GMO? the only GMOs I eat are God Made Organisms

Nothing wrong with GMOs except for extended patents, when ever someone tells me we need to ban GMOs I ask them which 2/3 of the world should be starved to death.

>>11177301
this

As >>11177339 said before.

But often when people see this abbreviation they think they’ll be genetically edited as well after eating this product. That’s the problem AFAIC.

>>11177282
Red flag thread spotted. Same as 5G threads.

>>11177282
Nothing wrong with it in and of itself although engineering for resistance to pesticides does spook me considering it means we're using an obscene amount of it

>>11178743
I'm not a Monsanto shill, it's hard to call them evil though because that farmer was caught and it's no better than any other GMO crop producer. If you can conclude they are all about as bad as the other ones I agree

>>11177282
We are doing it on large scale population by vacinnation... Somebody has been posting that study here.

>>11177282
Look, we need food. We need to produce more, to sell more. Then we need to throw away most of it, because it would be too cheap.

But monsanto gets the money.

>>11179076
>Monsanto isn't any worse than farmers
This opinion can only be expoused by people who are ignorant or have been paid.

I don't like when a poor dirt farmer or a gardening grandmother gets busted for accidentally growing a corporation's intellectual property. Other than that, I don't care.

>>11177694
>REEEEEE ur wrong!!!!
>(((no evidence)))

>>11179618
>smug anime reaction pic
>not pinnacle of argumentation

>>11179662
3d faces can deliver a full dimension more smugness than your juvenile cartoon pictures

>>11177297
KÄK

>>11177681
>We are in the THIRD decade after golden rice was created and it still hasn't been allowed in most countries because of the GMO boogeyman.
That's just you scaring yourself with the Greenpeace bogeyman.
Golden rice is still in its testing stages and governments that need it most are conducting them.