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 Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:24 pm
Normally I'm just a little bit wary of GM food, while I think the whole concept of mutating stuff is pretty neat I'm not sure if I want to eat mutant corn without it being tested against every possible scenario.
However, my opinion shifted quite the bit recently whenever I read this article supporting GM crops because of climate change and the harsh environments in many areas of the globe that may require "special" crops. Notably all the areas prone to desertification, ever notice how you never hear of corn in Saudi Arabia?
So, I'd like to know everyone else's thoughts on the GM food debate, particularly considering the fact that crops in the future will have grow in harsher environments than before, as well as the possibility of an oil and natural gas shortage making agricultural chemicals increase in price.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:39 pm
considering global warming, they are prolly trying to make the farming corn grow in any harsh conditions, like iowa's floods, and saudia's desert....but least it is one step forward to end world's hunger and also a step towards making environmental gasoline using corn......
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:32 pm
I personally don't think there's any real harm in GM foods. I think we have another topic debating this issue somewhere too... sweatdrop Anywho, they're helping world hunger, keeping farmers' wallets decent (or at least better), avoiding the whole mess of pesticides (putting on the equipment, flying the CO2-producing plane over to spray them...etc.), and evidently are not very harmful to our health. We've been eating this stuff for ages...Doesn't look like much is happening directly because of GM food.
Of course, there are various counter-opinions, but I'll just take them as they come along because...I'm feeling particularly lazy right now. XD
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:11 pm
gm crops are fine as long as the wild varieties are conserved to stop the gene pool shrinking, or one disease might wipe out the whole of the worlds wheatg or rice or somehting in one go and that would be very bad, it has to be used respsibly.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:48 pm
potoroo99 gm crops are fine as long as the wild varieties are conserved to stop the gene pool shrinking, or one disease might wipe out the whole of the worlds wheatg or rice or somehting in one go and that would be very bad, it has to be used respsibly.
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:50 pm
GM crops are a great step in science(I'm gona stick to organic just cause its fun to say) especialy with new grops, such as golden rice which prvides vitamin A, help fight cancer and the effects of malnutrition such as blindness.
I never think that it would be a requierment due to global warming. It should be used as a scalple to fix spesific needs, as aposed to a wide spread switch.
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