Scary article on GMO's (they all are ....

[The Mama Chicken]

It looks to me like they did do it, they just didn't market them. But my point was that these products are not something that can happen in nature. Take Bt corn for example, they put genes from a soil bacteria into corn plants, that isn't something that can happen in nature. A cross between two related plants or a mutation in a plant's genes, on the other hand, can and do happen all the time.

 

[hoodat]

That's an easy one, all of the genes in a hybrid tomato came from other tomatoes. There's no way for a tomato to get genes from a fish outside of a lab. To me that is going to far. Others may not feel the same way, and I don't want to make GMOs illegal, I just want more objective testing (done by someone other than the company that stands to gain or lose millions of dollars in profits due to the results of the tests) and I want them labeled. This doesn't seem to be too much to ask.

A quick search says that never happened.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dna/pop_genetic_gallery/index.html

Perhaps that particular case never happened but genes from a bacteria were inserted into corn to make it produce the catterpillar killing BT. This corn is widely grown world wide.

 

[Smiles Jr.]

When I first learned about Glyphosate (Roundup) I was led to believe that it would be immediately rendered useless as soon as it touched soil. By useless I mean that the active chemicals in there would be neutralized on contact with any soil. But after 20 years of use they tell us that the residual effects are accumulated in the soil and lasts for many years.

Millions of gallons of the stuff is sprayed on corn and soy beans every year around here. In fact there are probably as many as 10 big sprayers going right now in my county. Much of it is flushed into the streams and lakes and eventually winds up in the major rivers and into the oceans. This can't be good.

 

[seedcorn]

True, millions of gallons are sprayed every year. Some things to consider:
It is sprayed at pint to quart per acre, where others chemicals are sprayed by the gallons
Other chemicals have half life of 3-6 months whereas glysophate is rendered useless once it hits the ground
Run off glysophate is unheard of. Not sure how long in ground it takes to completely break down to basic components.
Like it or not, it's much safer than anything else we have.

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Like it or not, it's much safer than anything else we have.

And, like it or not, it's here to stay. Glyphosate has greatly improved the farmer's bottom line.