Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 8/12/06, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What would I want GMOs for?
For the same reason that human beings have engaged in breeding and
cross-breeding before the invention of GM?
I'm not saying that you (or anyone else) _should_ want to have GM
done, though.
It's just that GM has already been and is being done here in the USA,
and we've already been eating tons of GM foods. The way to go seems
to me to make an argument that would make it easier for us to take a
first step toward regulating it. Otherwise, what we'll have in the
USA will be unregulated GM.
It's not "breeding" as in hybriding, it's more like adding Salmon genes
to Tomatoes to make them red even though the conditions the tomatoes are
grown in preclude reddening.
It's not cross- breeding. It's frankenfood. It doesn't exist in
naturally, the way het sex produces a child, and depending on the choice
of partners results in a "cross" between DNA stranding in the resultant
human.
Regarding the fact that this type of material is already being consumed
by the American public. American kids ARE the guinea pigs... Don't they
LOOK healthy? Fat n' sassy! It's in all the junk food, which btw, I
can't eat anymore because almost all of it contains olean, the
artificial fat that gives a huge pecentage of the people that eat it the
shits... However, it's not listed on labels and containers of this...
material... because the frankenfood indusrty lobbied for GAAS status and
got it.
Now it's just another artificial flavor and/or fragrance(a creepy
industry in and of itself).
Now I want comment on the economic/societal aspects of GMOs,
considering, per my posted links, they don't even work as advertised,
are detrimental to a farmer's profits etc.
I want to know WHY we should be researching GMOs intead of spending the
research dollars to create ...a 'National Compost Pile For Healthy
American Soil'. At or near GWB's ranch in Crawford would be a good
location for the pilot project.
As any hippie or professional pot grower will tell you (and some have
phds in botany), you can CO2 enrich, stress, strain, use
superfertilizers... hybrid to your heart's content, but the best plants,
THC-wise, are the healthiest, not the biggest or most bountiful.
As I see western culture, it's focused to the point of stupidity on size
and quantity, not quality, or viability of the long term relatio... I
mean results.
It shows in the ongoing intellectual discussion of GMOs more than any
other scientific pursuit.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
