I understand that You can dislike GMOs but You know that strawberry is hybrid fruit? So If You don't like GMO, You can't like stawberries or If You like stawberries, You shouldn't minde GMO :p
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Well, i hear recent studies show thanks to GMO people in USA are more susceptible to cancer thanks to removing B-12 vitamin from food, they thought its dangerous because part of it is arsenic. Recently it was proven that it was bound and harmless until it encountered cancer cells and killed em.
People should realize they don't know half of they think they know and messing with such basic stuff as evolution can have severe consequences...
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What the hell are you on about?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Cobalamin.png/479px-Cobalamin.png
As you can see, there is no arsenic atom in B12.
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As somebody with an extensive education in bio, it is impossible to make universal blanket statements about GMO's, and it would be highly pointless for me to sit here and write paragraphs about why that is. But I will say genetically modified model organisms are absolutely essential in finding new drug targets.
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But we all love pointless discussion. Don't we?
I at least do. And,well. I don't think that sharing your views in any matter is pointless at all. Anyways, feel free to contribute. And I agree with you in the last part, GMOs such as knock-out animals are esential in drug discovery.
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I don't have a problem with it as long as I have the option of actual, non-modified, organic produce and such.
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So I was kinda of losing the habit of creating discussion topics and here we go again.
So, yeah. What's your opinion on GMOs? For those that didn't know, GMOs (Or genetically modified organisms) are, as their name suggests, organism whose genetic material has been altered by the use of genetic engineering techniques.
Those modifications vary but some examples could be obtaining knock-out organisms, that is, organisms which don't express a certain gene, mostly for their use in investigation; obtaining species able to produce a certain substance they weren't able to such as getting insuline from bacteria and it's also important its use in the food industry and I think that's the one use people care more about when it comes to GMOs.
In the food industry crops are modified genetically so that they can resists frosts, are not prone to be infected by certain insects or diseases and, to sum up, give a better production overall as oposed to traditional agriculture.
So my question is. Do you consume genetically modified food? What's your view on them? And, do you think that every single way of genetic modification is the same? If not, which one presents the most advantages/drawbacks to you?
Do you think that they present risks for their consumers? To be honest I think that eating a genetically modified crop is the very same as eating any other kind of food. There's nothing inherently evil with genetic modification, what is more if bacteria produced tomatoes those tomatoes would be the same kind as regular tomatoes, wouldn't they?
Opinate on.
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