Posted by NW Ohio Tim on February 01, 2012 at 08:04:54 from (76.76.36.32):
In Reply to: Just label it! posted by rlp in co. on January 31, 2012 at 18:48:00:
First off, I'm not opposed to GMO food. I use antibiotics in my pigs when I need to and if you want to put hormones in your steers, have at it. There are alot of people not starving today because of abundant cheap food.
Now then....
This whole thread is what is wrong with things today. It started out as a post about GMO and has turned into just a bunch of people yammering. Pretty soon, the people yammering the loudest get to a lawmaker and we have a regulation that was based on no fact or knowledge.
GMO refers to genetically modified by gene splicing.... at the DNA level. It's not crioss breeding or artifically inseminating or fencing pastures!! Quit trying to muddy the conversation. Should it have a different name?? Who cares, it's the one it has.
I just had this conversation with my sister in law last week. Here's what I told her to make her understand better. Here's the GMO For Dummies explanation in a nutshell: cornstalks used to start to rot before the grain was harvested and they would fall down. Scientists discovered peanut plants didn't, so they went in and found the gene that kept them from rotting as fast and replaced the corn gene with the peanut gene. Now the corn stalk doesn't rot as fast. Corn plants and peanut plants would never cross pollinate, so that is genetically modified.
That's over simplified but she understood. Now lets quit talking about hybrid vigor and GMO in the same terms, it's like saying the caveman that invented the wheel put a man on the moon.... it's kind of a stretch.
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