Would you eat a GMO product?

by kir Posted 2012/07/16 19:36:08

Related Topics: Fashion, GMO, Opinion, Eat, Genetic, Lot, Intelligent

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	Yes	10 votes	33%
	Probably	3 votes	10%
	Probably not	8 votes	27%
	No	4 votes	13%
	Undecided	5 votes	17%

People have mixed opinions about genetic engineering in general; I'd say that if done properly it's more than safe. There are a lot of advantages to it if it's done in an intelligent fashion.

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merlinskiss 2012/07/16 20:06:39

No

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I have no respect for and no need for these products... Monsanto and Tyson can shove it!

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Marissa Garreffa 2012/07/23 05:12:03

Undecided

Not until their are more advance in genetic engineering. There are too many unknowns right now.

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FortunaVeritas 2012/07/17 21:21:30

Probably

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I'd love to have some GMO produce that was healthier for us and provided more nutrients that were otherwise hard to come by. They haven't gone about things in the right way though, unfortunately.

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Owen Banks 2012/07/17 11:02:35

Yes

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How many foods can you name that aren't the product of some modification? Are you sure?

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The Nixus 2012/07/17 08:53:55

Probably not

Until it's proven I would not touch any GMO if I could help it as 80% of US grain type food is probibly GMO by now anyway as they hide things from the public eye

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XQNP 2012/07/17 05:21:05

Yes

Granted, when they're done wrong, GMO foods can be dangerous, but so can any other food. As long as basic safety testing remains in place, I don't really see the problem.

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vitaminanime 2012/07/17 03:03:50 (edited)

Undecided

I have...Most of our food is GMO'd unless it's marked organic or otherwise...I mean, it's good that the crops cann feed more people, but the toxins and chemicals that occur in GMOs are frightening (addictive drugs in wheat, estrogens in soy, etc.)

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kir to vitamin... 2012/07/17 11:27:34

Actually gluten is naturally occurring and can be considered addictive to those who have a reaction to it and soy naturally contains estrogen...

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vitamin... to kir 2012/07/18 06:37:13

i know that gluten is naturally occuring(believe me I have gluten sensitivity) and that soy contains estrogens, but the wheat we eat nowadays has been so genetically engineered that it has morphene-like drugs in it that are actually addictive.

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kir to vitamin... 2012/07/18 10:23:15

I believe that was through our own selection; I suppose you can call that genetic engineering, but most people don't consider hybridization and selective breeding to be genetic engineering.

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ScatterJoy! 2012/07/17 02:51:05

Undecided

Aren't most of the manufactured foods available in stores sporting the latest GMO trends?

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kir to Scatter... 2012/07/17 11:28:43

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Probably. It's a trend that's spreading too fast in my opinion; we don't need to modify every food we have through genetic engineering. However I do feel that genetic engineering can have some major benefits to civilization as a whole both in food production and medicine; it can also have some really neat future applications which I will write about at another time such as self repairing buildings, etc.

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S and S 2012/07/16 23:51:47

Yes

pretty much do anyway!

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bags the Indigenous Guru 2012/07/16 20:10:09

No

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Not knowingly I wouldn't.

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TuringsChild 2012/07/16 20:09:48

Probably not

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Intelligent? Big Pharma? While the FDA is their lapdog instead of our guard dog? I wouldn't bet YOUR life on that, let alone my own.

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kir to Turings... 2012/07/16 20:10:55

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Well as I mentioned in my post the real issue is that the federal government works for big business not us.

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Phoenix 2012/07/16 20:09:31

Yes

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Sure, as you say, if done properly.
I do have a bit of concern though about corporations and how they plan to control world crop seeds and production. Global food production and distribution should not have any "too big to fail" corporations or monopolies.

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kir to Phoenix 2012/07/16 20:11:36

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Oh of course not. I'm opposed to big government protecting corrupt corporations and allowing them to grow stronger, as I mentioned in my post.

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Jane to Phoenix 2012/07/16 23:23:01

Yep, I understand that India is fighting this their courts right now.

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merlinskiss 2012/07/16 20:06:39

No

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I have no respect for and no need for these products... Monsanto and Tyson can shove it!

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kir to merlins... 2012/07/16 20:12:06

You're confusing the tool with the person wielding it, as I mentinoed in my post. Did you read it?

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merlins... to kir 2012/07/16 21:01:28

Yes... And NO!

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kir to merlins... 2012/07/16 21:02:09

Most people will have their minds set without trying to learn, that's not uncommon but it is a shame.

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merlins... to kir 2012/07/16 21:05:29

I learned. It's still NO!

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kir to merlins... 2012/07/16 21:10:51

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I thought you meant no to reading it; that's fine then.

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merlins... to kir 2012/07/16 21:38:42

We raise a lot of our own heritage foods and buy local meats. The difference is night and day on the fresh, locally grown and raaised foods. Am now canning Cherokee Purple tomatoes for this winter.

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kir to merlins... 2012/07/16 21:53:31

Oh I definitely agree that local production no matter what is the best way to go. I think tomatoes still need to be canned rather than jarred, but I do want to note that canning has some negative health consequences in itself. What about freezing?

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merlins... to kir 2012/07/16 22:20:32

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We dry them mostly with a dehydrator. But fresh canned (in a jar) after the skin is removed is pretty healthy. No preservatives added,

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KingdomNow 2012/07/16 19:46:11

Yes

No prob.

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Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody 2012/07/16 19:41:32

Yes

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I've eaten a few GMO products and so far no abnormal growths. Though I do have a mole that resembles Fidel Castro on my butt.

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kir to Dwight-... 2012/07/16 19:52:29

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So is that how Castro was "born"...

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Dwight-... to kir 2012/07/16 20:34:44

+1

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Simmering Frog 2012/07/16 19:41:25

Probably not

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No but I answered probably not because I'm sure I'm already eating them. I'm trying to find my local Farmer's Market so I won't be doing business with companies that do alter them.

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bags th... to Simmeri... 2012/07/16 20:12:32

I've either done that or grown my own since the 70's. I've been a stickler for organics, too, and it's paid off for me when pesticides and such have caused news. Funny a it seems, my family was very much into that even in the 50's.

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Lunacat 2012/07/16 19:39:32

Probably not

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I like real, natural food.

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kir to Lunacat 2012/07/16 19:53:42

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Well ignoring the fact that we've been manipulating our food for about 10,000 years making it nothing like what exists in nature, and ignoring the fact that genetic transfer occurs natuarlly all the time, as my article points out, I will agree that eating locally produced food produced using natural farming techniques is a good idea.

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HarleyCharley 2012/07/16 19:37:10

Probably not

it depends...

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kir to HarleyC... 2012/07/16 19:37:23

On what?

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