ZOMBIE FORUMS

I see no problem with it. People just fear things they don't understand. It is like drawing a line where science can't act beyond for no reason.

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It leafy, it's foody, it's ediable, what's wrong with it?

I can understand the arguments about the ones enginneered to produce drugs being to close to foodstuff crops, but beyond that, this argument is just silly.

Arguing against GM foods is like arguing against cybertechnological implants. Mankind has been playing around with spectacles, prosthetics, mechanical hearts & lungs etc, etc... To protest against 'cyborgs' is a waste of time. The cyborgs are already among us. Likewise, Mankind has already been altering the genetics of the creatures and plants around him for ages, through agriculture and animal husbandry.

Yes. Any field (pun not intended) of study has its dangers. If we had been overly worried about superviruses, we would never have developed antibiotics, and that would have been... bad.

Biotech has my support. I'm uncharacteristically optimistic of it.

I remember one of the reasons against genetically modified foods: one company modified their genetically modified plants so that farmers would be unable to use them to make more seeds (meaning only the company would be the source of the seeds). Some people have had reservations about that because pollen, supposedly, from these modified plants could get to wild plants and prevent them from reproducing.
That's only part of it, anyways...

Once again, too late, they are amoung us :)

That just means that genetic modifications should be controlled, by the FDA or whoever, not banned.

i'm all for it, but like what others have said, put in controls. this will be/is an industry, not a bunch of mad scientists making 100 foor bugs and talking cattle. The all pervasive fear culture that is and always has been rife in society has always leant to throwing the baby out wityh the bathwater, which is why so many scientific breakthroughs are accidents, maybe...

perhaps there should be a hypocratic oath for GM foods and such, to make sure that the problem of the sterile seeds doesn't spread or anything.

some of the main problems with GM 'super' crops has been in the 3rd world where they (and the pesticides/fertiliser etc needed to grow them) was totally out of step with the nations level of farming, mass production techniques and products being use dof scales too small to be of any use whatsoever etc, agricultural collapse, famine.

the problem is with the use, not the thing itself

if it's bigger, cheaper, tastier and grows all year round, what's wrong with it?