Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops
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The only real truely bad thing I can think that may and even has happened with GMO products is these rapid growing modified crops getting out into the wild and overpopulating the local wild flowers, causing damage to that section of the ego system but that's really all I can think of. Most issues with GMO crops are not actually by the crop its self it's what we put on them to keep pests away that does more damage.
Remember the drunk honey bees? Pesticides put on GMO crops.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43676371]You realize that we aren't doing anything unnatural, right? Arbitrary changes of genetic code - that's literally how evolution works, and if it didn't, you wouldn't be there, spewing misinformed demagogy.[/QUOTE]
I once watched a documentary where scientists added some spider genes in potato genes. They tried to develop potatoes that would produce small spider web threads, they failed. Not sure if they continued working on it.
As far as I know evolution doesn't mix plants and insects in that way...
[QUOTE=AntonioR;43678699]I once watched a documentary where scientists added some spider genes in potato genes. They tried to develop potatoes that would produce small spider web threads, they failed. Not sure if they continued working on it.
As far as I know evolution doesn't mix plants and insects in that way...[/QUOTE]
Fairly sure that's a load of shit to be honest. Just slapping in genes here and there doesn't work. GMO foods are by and large safe as we aren't trying to create "frakenfoods" that contain animal genes to make them meaty or whatever, we are combining the beneficial parts of various plants into other plants that lack them to try and make them worth cultivating and farming, we are trying to make food cattle safer and easier to care for without damaging them or their products.
I do remember they were trying once to mess about with goats and spiders to create spider silk. The idea apparently was to take the goats milk and develop it into silk.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSteel[/url]
Pretty fascinating stuff.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;43678760]Fairly sure that's a load of shit to be honest. Just slapping in genes here and there doesn't work. GMO foods are by and large safe as we aren't trying to create "frakenfoods" that contain animal genes to make them meaty or whatever, we are combining the beneficial parts of various plants into other plants that lack them to try and make them worth cultivating and farming, we are trying to make food cattle safer and easier to care for without damaging them or their products.[/QUOTE]
It was a documentary on Discovery/National Geographic or something like that. Spider web protein, that's what they want.
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[QUOTE=Saturn V;43667505]Man that looks gross.[/QUOTE]
I've never seen anything like it before.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;43679037]It was a documentary on Discovery/National Geographic or something like that. Spider web protein, that's what they want.[/QUOTE]
Why would they add it to potatoes? That makes no sense.
They did actually add it to cows (or goats, can't remember) so they produced milk with it in, so it could be separated and turned into thread. But potatoes? They'd have to add the mechanism for it to produce the spider silk first.
I want seeds for these. I'd love to have a plant.
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