So before you freak out, do research. GMO is simply being genetically modified to make better. There is nothing harmful in placing another gene into an organism. Trying to kill the public off and obviously you believe their lies or are part of their company or a shill.
This article is very misleading. What a tremendous disappointment this article is. It is not only misleading but it really sounds like a proGMO industry article, full of outright lies. We at SITN try to be very careful about not presenting false information. If you have identified such information in this article, please provide a contradictory peer-reviewed source, and we will be happy to correct it.
I love you. Selective breeding does not involve inter-species DNA modification but the article stated this. The article is in no way misleading. The person who wrote the article just gave an opinion. The opinion does not have to correlate to your opinion but that does not make it wrong.
Honestly the information published by gmo project is a lie and is just increasing food prices. No one truely knows anything and the fact that people think everything is being gmo-ed is stupid. Anyone with a basic knowledge of biology, chemistry and nutrition knows these processes are radically different and the campaign to mislead and conflate as though they are not should be discredited, individual scientists and entire labs, participating in this con should be publicly called out and held accountable for their abuses.
Manipulating proteins and breaking a sequence that is recognizable and bio-available is not the same as manipulating and isolating for expression in reproduction. You know this. So yes, this article makes some comparisons between selective breeding and GE tech, but it also states that they are different. We also have other articles that support the regulation and testing of GM foods and explain some of the environmental dangers of currently available GM foods—such as the formation of superweeds.
I noticed no mention of any information regarding long term effects of ingesting food that contain these unnatural occurring ingredients. I also think, as well as others I think, that if one were to follow the money one would find Monsanto, that makes huge dollars on all this has spent huge dollars trying to down play the negative publicity.
It has happened before and will happen again. So all the individuals involved in creating this article should have gone the extra step and investigated the other side of the story a little more thoroughly. It would have done wonders for your credibility. Hello and thank you for your comment! This article is part of a series of articles that we did on GMOs this one being specifically about the history of GMOs.
I was the editor who put together this series, and I have to say that I went into it a skeptic. I thought that there had to be something sketchy about GMOs. We have another article dedicated to health effects, and even another dedicated to the potential for allerginicity. Please check them out! Like the author of this post, I am a graduate student. We are an entirely grad-student-run organization.
The comments on this article, by majority, are proof that this is a terrible time to be intelligent. They call this article misleading for integrating two human influenced concepts, but the title of the article is clear. What a brilliantly, precise conclusion of this comment section!! So many people attempting to disprove scientifically supported truths!! The research and insights presented in these articles are providing a great launching point, thanks to the referenced sources and measured fact based conclusions, for my own graduate project.
For that, I want to say thank you to the authors. I am still trying to narrow my focus and develop my initial research approach and methods but the information contained in all of these articles has helped me cut past the sensationalism and begin to build a good base of literature concerning the history, process, concerns, and development of GMOs.
Again, thank you. This comment is primarily aimed at Sitn Flash? I am trained as a scientist math, physics, etc. This must lead a disinterested observer to ask what they Monsanto, Dupont and their ilk are trying to hide, or at least to be receptive to even Conspiracy Theorists who claim on the basis of likewise anecdotal evidence that they cause cancer and other ills. It would not be amiss here to mention the U.
No, thank you. Even the farmer cannot use his own corn to plant a crop the following year. Now, I am just a typical skeptical scientist drawing common-sense conclusions from the facts that I think I know. That is, they should have started feeding laboratory rats their Roundup-tainted corn e.
Gabriel and Sitn? But I also want to feel that I can possibly make the choices I want to in what to eat, without having to worry that some corporate giant will have bought their label-free way into the food market, which would thereby affect me.
American plant in use for literally hundreds of years or more in that continent and that can be used broken up as a sweetener. And it has no side effects. However, the plant stevia has about 80 other molecules, which may or may not be the reason the other molecules why stevia has no side effects. See you in a couple of generations, and meanwhile may your grandparents not suffer the fate of mine! So …, I feel no scientific compunction in drawing my own conclusions in this case, or in trying to avoid being a Guinea pig for Monsanto.
And then avoid eating them. So call me a conspiracy theorist. Sounds like a sound theory to me! Hello and thanks for your comment! I am a scientist biologist. That is, the process of genetically engineering food does not make it bad for you. I think it is reasonable to label GMOs if it actually has useful information in it—like what the food is modified with. Also, your understanding of how glyphosate-resistance RoundUp-resistance works is a little off.
The plants do NOT bind the pesticide. Is that to say I think Monsanto is a great company that can do no wrong? Given the RoundUp-resistant weed problem, we need to proceed carefully with investigating how they might affect our environment, and public-sector research is key for this!
But I am hopeful that GM foods can do good in the world by helping us to lessen the environmental impact of farming. I am a high school student writing a paper on GMOs and I found this article and your comments to be very helpful! However, after researching for this product, I find this article and series very interesting. I find it interesting that many people were upset by the part of the article that commented on price changes caused by GMO labeling.
I completely agree with the article: if GMOs were labeled, it might cause the public to view them as something dangerous since they have to be singled out with a label therefore decreasing demand for them. GMO crop prices might also increase as producers tried to make a profit off fewer sales. Overall, I found this article very informative; I especially appreciated your comment about allergies, since that is an angle I had never considered before. If you had any more information regarding GMOs and how they work, I would find that very interesting!
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I have been previously searching the site over an hour or so now and also have really found out a lot. Just wanted to let you know. Of course these products can be dangerous to human life if not to follow it all, but everything is controlled by specialized commissions.
You accept it or not, but our future for GMOs, but otherwise everything is very bad. GMO will one day change us humans to superbeing. Would it be good or bad, only time will tell. I found it very usefull. If provided me with tons of information for my project. I would reccomend this website to anyone who needs information on GMO technology. Thank you Harvard! If GMO is so great, why is there any debate about whether or not a product must be labelled?
If I have no fear of competition, why vote for monopoly? Putting two compatible strains of corn grass together in a field hoping to increase yield is substantially different than messing with the encoding of an organism on the genetic level. Noticing desirable traits in two dogs and allowing them to breed them is markedly different than building a non-native chemical compound cooked up in a lab into a plants genetics.
The modern era is punctuated by incredible technological potential in the hands of children playing with matches. If you remove one card from a house of cards and the house does not collapse, it is irrelevant, just pull another card — oh, no collapse yet?
Just keep pulling cards dummy, it will soon come screaming down around your ears, which in my opinion, is no great loss on humanity, one or more morons collapsing something large and heavy onto their fool heads. After reading your comment, I can immediately tell you are very misinformed. All of your argument is based on opinions that have been drawn from sources with insufficient evidence. The writing shows that you have not been properly educated on this subject, and therefore should not be making false comments on this article.
I must say, I am quite offended by your comment. My mom is a nurse, and some of my best friends parents are doctors, and all of us are vaccinated every year. And though we have been defeating diseases for years, they took a large toll on human society. For example, the black death killed a third of europe before it slowed down.
Some people dont think that GMO should be labelled because it would just add to the myth of the dangers of GMO, which many major companies are using to sell more products.
The soil bacterium, Bacillius thiurengensis , produces an insecticidal protein. That protein is coded for by a certain gene, one example is cry 1Ab. See how well you understand the general concepts of making a genetically engineered crop by playing this game, Who Wants to Be a Genetic Engineer?
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When sprayed on the surface of crops, however, Bt toxins break down quickly when exposed to ultraviolet light, and they also wash off in a strong rain. Some strains of Bt produce proteins that are selectively toxic to caterpillars, such as the southwestern corn borer, while others target mosquitoes, root worms, or beetles. To create a Bt crop variety, plant scientists select the gene for a particular Bt toxin and insert it into the cells of corn or cotton plant at the embryo stage.
The resulting mature plant has the Bt gene in all its cells and expresses the insecticidal protein in its leaves. Caterpillars ingest the toxin, which fatally damages the lining of the gut.
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