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Old 05-12-2008, 03:26 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Like Rigged said... dangers such as? Currently, biotech is used for for production of cheap insulin. Human DNA was inserted into bacteria. It was done by "evil" biotech corps... Do you object to that? You personally may not benefit, but a diabetic certainly does. Another biotech invention is the GM crops... The kooky people in Japan and Europe can do as they please, but GM crops has been used around the world (including US) for a while, and we are still alive...

I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge the real dangers - indeed, insertion of genes from different organisms may trigger allergic reactions, and those may be serious. This is a real problem, hence i believe GM food, like everything else, should be properly labeled... There are some other minor environmental problems (like in that British farm study, where birds were impacted because weeds that they ate were wiped out by pesticides), so those should be considered as well. But attack of the killer tomatoes is science fiction lol, might as well be afraid of leprechauns.
I am not a scientist at all so I will take your word for it. I know that there is no reason to worry though since there is no commercial benefit to raising "killer tomatoes." Nor have there been ANY cases I know about where any products in biotech have been suspect, beyond the obvious stuff that happens when a product goes out into the greater population (unforeseen reactions, after all you can't test EVERYTHING in a lab). As far as I understand it, the best way to study the effects of a product is once it has left the lab. I don't have any reason to believe that they would release a product that would be deliberately dangerous to the public w/o informing us of the risks. There are tons of products out there where the utility of there use outweighs the risk of injury to an individual.
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Old 05-12-2008, 03:43 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Like Rigged said... dangers such as? Currently, biotech is used for for production of cheap insulin. Human DNA was inserted into bacteria. It was done by "evil" biotech corps... Do you object to that? You personally may not benefit, but a diabetic certainly does. Another biotech invention is the GM crops... The kooky people in Japan and Europe can do as they please, but GM crops has been used around the world (including US) for a while, and we are still alive...

I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge the real dangers - indeed, insertion of genes from different organisms may trigger allergic reactions, and those may be serious. This is a real problem, hence i believe GM food, like everything else, should be properly labeled... There are some other minor environmental problems (like in that British farm study, where birds were impacted because weeds that they ate were wiped out by pesticides), so those should be considered as well. But attack of the killer tomatoes is science fiction lol, might as well be afraid of leprechauns.
I don't have time today but in the next couple days I will lay out some of the issues I feel need looking @..........
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I am not a scientist at all so I will take your word for it. I know that there is no reason to worry though since there is no commercial benefit to raising "killer tomatoes." Nor have there been ANY cases I know about where any products in biotech have been suspect, beyond the obvious stuff that happens when a product goes out into the greater population (unforeseen reactions, after all you can't test EVERYTHING in a lab). As far as I understand it, the best way to study the effects of a product is once it has left the lab. I don't have any reason to believe that they would release a product that would be deliberately dangerous to the public w/o informing us of the risks. There are tons of products out there where the utility of there use outweighs the risk of injury to an individual.
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