Do you support genetically modified plants?

Do you support genetically modified plants?

  • Yes

    Votes: 36 61.0%

  • No

    Votes: 23 39.0%
  • Total voters
    59
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Do you support genetically modified plants (for food) or are you concerned about the long-term impact of “super plants” which are resistant to most diseases and weather conditions?
 
yes as long as the plants are healthy and stay apart else they might unleash a new coronavirus to us humans
 
I support plants that support themselves.

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GMO's are the world-saving, hunger-busting bro's we need.
 
BetaProject said:
Everything we eat is genetically modified, if you mean that the current genes are different than the original, sometimes radically so.

This is what common fruit looked like before we started domesticating them, the first form of genetic modification.
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Ridiculous strawman.
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition of a genetically modified organism and what constitutes genetic engineering varies, with the most common being an organism altered in a way that "does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination".
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here's the definition in case you are still confused. This is the reason why big agricultural companies can patent their seeds.
 
Yes, I ate Pronutro every day during my developmental years and I regret nothing {twitch twitch}
 
I'm generally not in favour of GMOs (not because they are GMOs) but because of the bad and lazy monoculture agricultural practices that they enable.

But poor people need their pap.
 
No. It taste like crap.

I miss having access to real organic and fresh vegetables and fruits not pumped full of stuff or modified. It's like drinking Ricoffy compared to fresh ground beans. I can imagine even coffee beans can be modified. But I am not gonna grow my own Coffea at this stage...
 
Yeah, I want thick-skinned buttery avocados that are as big as watermelons and come pre-salt & vinegar-ed. Don't mind adding ground peppercorns myself.
Oh and while you at it, a type of grass that cuts itself - for my lawn.

Come-on science, pitter-patter..
 
RedViking said:
No. It taste like crap.

I miss having access to real organic and fresh vegetables and fruits not pumped full of stuff or modified. It's like drinking Ricoffy compared to fresh ground beans. I can imagine even coffee beans can be modified. But I am not gonna grow my own Coffea at this stage...
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Check out this shop. Buddy of mine runs it: https://www.livingseeds.co.za/

Heirloom fruits and veggies is their "thing". As in - they way they're supposed to be, for the most part. I've had some of the stuff he sells - it's amazing to taste something that tastes like it's supposed to taste.
 
YES!

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Toxxyc said:
Check out this shop. Buddy of mine runs it: https://www.livingseeds.co.za/

Heirloom fruits and veggies is their "thing". As in - they way they're supposed to be, for the most part. I've had some of the stuff he sells - it's amazing to taste something that tastes like it's supposed to taste.
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Awesome. When I start my veggie garden again I will check it out.
 
RedViking said:
No. It taste like crap.

I miss having access to real organic and fresh vegetables and fruits not pumped full of stuff or modified. It's like drinking Ricoffy compared to fresh ground beans. I can imagine even coffee beans can be modified. But I am not gonna grow my own Coffea at this stage...
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That seems to be a result of all the pesticides and chemical fertilizers they use killing off soil's biology that feeds the plant.

The result of bad monoculture agricultural practices, rather than that the plant is GMO.

You could definitely also compromise taste for looks and size with just conventional selective breeding.
 
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