Would like to buy Genetically Modified Seeds for Vegetables

[obsessed]

Yup this is why I stay out of the GM conversation.

 

[wifezilla]

The selling point of GM crops is to use LESS herbicides and NO insecticides. but go on with your rants.......

Post 35 gave an example of GMO cotton that now requires MORE pesticides. Did you miss that?

"The widespread planting of a genetically engineered crop designed to withstand a menacing pest has had the unanticipated consequence of transforming benign bugs into agricultural predators, according to a new study."

It also turns out that GMO corn is a pollutant...
" insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment.

The insecticide is the product of a bacterial gene inserted into GM maize and other cereal crops to protect them against insects such as the European corn borer beetle. Scientists have detected the insecticide in a significant number of streams draining the great corn belt of the American mid-West.

The researchers detected the bacterial protein in the plant detritus that was washed off the corn fields into streams up to 500 metres away. They are not yet able to determine how significant this is in terms of the risk to either human health or the wider environment.

"Our research adds to the growing body of evidence that corn crop byproducts can be dispersed throughout a stream network, and that the compounds associated with genetically modified crops, such as insecticidal proteins, can enter nearby water bodies," said Emma Rosi-Marshall of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

GM crops are widely cultivated except in Britain and other parts of Europe. In 2009, more than 85 per cent of American corn crops were genetically modified to either repel pests or to be tolerant to herbicides used to kill weeds in a cultivated field.

The GM maize, or corn as it is called in the US, has a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuriengensis (Bt) inserted into it to repel the corn borer beetle. The Bt gene produces a protein called Cry1Ab which has insectidical properties.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, analysed 217 streams in Indiana. The scientists found 86 per cent of the sites contained corn leaves, husks, stalks or cereal cobs in their channels and 13 per cent contained detectable levels of the insectidical Cry1Ab proteins.

"The tight linkage between corn fields and streams warrants further research into how corn byproducts, including Cry1Ab insecticidal proteins, potentially impact non-target ecosystems, such as streams and wetlands," Dr Rosi-Marshall said.

All of the stream sites with detectable insecticidal proteins were located within 500 metres of a corn field. The ramifications are vast just in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, where about 90 per cent of the streams and rivers some 159,000 miles of waterways are also located within 500 metres of corn fields.

After corn crops are harvested, a common agricultural practice is to leave discarded plant material on the fields. This "no-till" form of agriculture minimises soil erosion, but it then also sets the stage for corn byproducts to enter nearby stream channels."
http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...-rivers-across-the-united-states-2091300.html

 

[damummis]

Even IF GMO crops were the next wave of the future....

What are the long term effects on the human body? On animals that eat the crops? You don't really know what type of DNA changes these crops have on US. And don't think for a minute the governments wouldn't make and approve something that was detrimental to humans.

 

[vfem]

Even IF GMO crops were the next wave of the future....

What are the long term effects on the human body? On animals that eat the crops? You don't really know what type of DNA changes these crops have on US. And don't think for a minute the governments wouldn't make and approve something that was detrimental to humans.

Its completely unknown territory.

And to say that is not a problem is ridiculous! I'm sure that if they could prove that it would honestly make no different, they would spend millions on the research to shove it in everyone's faces, rather then sue every tom, dick and harry!

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

Folks you can put your opinion up politely or you can leave the thread without posting. There will always be two sides to this debate, respect the other one or your say in your side will be removed, and so might be your posting privileges.

This is the only warning this thread will have, you all came in here knowing this would be contentious.

 

[ninnymary]

Thank you Adopted...I was feeling really bad for the person that posted. Even though my opinion differs from his, I feel we should educate rather than slam a person.

Mary

 

[catjac1975]

Take a look.GMO
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL5E8KJAGN20120919?irpc=932