Re: GMO-Organic

Posted by 36F30 on March 30, 2014 at 09:37:22 from (174.30.79.209):

In Reply to: GMO-Organic posted by farmer boy on March 30, 2014 at 07:47:06:

farmer boy said: (quoted from post at 07:47:06 03/30/14) You're thinking of hybrids. Completely different than GMO. It's simply selective breeding, the same thing as cross breeding cattle. I have absolutely nothing against hybrids. It was something that was made to happen. It's natural for any two corn varieties to cross. They are simply selective about it. Evolution on the other hand is closer to GMO. Difference is that evolution is natural and can be picky choosy. Something that's not supposed to happen won't. There's nothing to say that the artifical mutation made is safe. There's a good chance that it is. I've been saying this the whole time. I never came on here and said " GMO crops are not safe and will cause cancer." I said "GMO crops might not be safe and may cause cancer." At this point, we don't know, so in the mean time, why is a person or industry being blasted for #1, Quite possibly being safer, and #2 Taking full advantage of capitalism.

I have stayed out of this until now. People need to know some things.

Before the gene insertion process was developed and labeled as GMO. All the breeders needed to find mutations. They needed to grow millions of plants to find just one, and multiple millions to find a "good" mutation that would benefit them. Like all for profit businesses they were impatient and being driven to cut costs for shareholders. It was common practice to take growing plants that were just developing their reproductive cells and BOMBARD THEM WITH NUCLEAR RADIATION to cause mutations. This was an industry wide accepted practice to mutate the crop and quickly find beneficial mutations. Say they got one that had exceptionally strong stalks. It would then be selected for breeding and placed in the chain to become parent stock for new hybrids. These were CONVENTIONAL varieties. These conventional varieties and their irradiated mutations were NEVER tested, no research was ever done on what other mutations had occurred from the radiation, and what effect it had. Very little of this process was ever discussed and I think you can see why.

The gene insertion process now labeled as GMO allowed a scientist to select a certain genetic trait and isolate it, then insert it into the corn plants DNA. At first it was blasted in by a gene gun, now they are inserted cleanly into a chemically cleaved DNA sequence with no effect on the rest of the plants DNA.

So the gene insertion techniques scare the simple minded and uniformed individuals and the anti GMO movement is born. They replaced an untested and unregulated crop that was haphazardly mutated to who knows what, with a very specifically engineered plant.

GMO's are the most highly medically tested and regulated crops in history. As a matter of fact they are the ONLY medically tested and regulated crops in HISTORY.

SO ask yourself, Do you want an uncontrolled irradiated mutant known as a CONVENTIONAL variety. Or a highly tested very specific, inserted with no other DNA damaged, mutation called a GMO. I'll take the GMO

This post was edited by 36F30 at 09:38:00 03/30/14.

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