[tony6789 (OP)]

yea im going with who cares tastes good!  []

[Ben6789]

Anyway, i think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages here.

[tony6789 (OP)]

but if ur allergic to 1 thing and u eat another thing that has its genes wat will happen

[Ben6789]

i think that one gene won't set it off..depends how sensative you are.

[another_someone]

There were cases where nut allergies were transferred by genetic engineered products that contained genes from nuts.  This was caught during tests, so never actually happened in the field, but it does show that it can happen.

I think GM is a very powerful technology, but anything powerful also carries powerful risks, and we need to have good regulation to manage those risks, but unfortunately we don't yet fully understand the risks, and maybe wont understand them fully until the first major disaster happens.

The other problem with GM is the legal issue, that you are patenting life forms - this has not really properly been explored, and in some countries, is outside their existing patent law (I believe that India forbids the patenting of living organsism - what next - the patenting of human beings?).

[that mad man]

I distrust it and if I can avoid it, will.

Someone first needs to convince me that what advantage it is, other than profit to the Licence holders and shareholders.

They are already patenting software which is a mathematical code, any discoveries and alterations to DNA I'm sure will follow.

Bee

[Bored chemist]

"There were cases where nut allergies were transferred by genetic engineered products that contained genes from nuts.  This was caught during tests, so never actually happened in the field, but it does show that it can happen."
New varieties produced by conventional breeding sometimes throw out oddities like this. Unlike GM there is no requirement to check (apart from the risk of getting sued)
Is GM such a bad thing?
For many things the only way for the License holders to make a profit is to sell lots of product. They will only do that if there is some sort of benefit to the producer or consumer.
For the most part, a benefit to the producer will also give a benfit to the consumer in terms of lower prices.

[that mad man]

GM may not be a bad thing, I just question why its necessary as food is too cheap and plentiful already IMHO.

The growers also will always be reliant on the GM supplier for the seeds so there is a monopoly aspect to it.

Bee

[neilep]

I need an ' undecided ' option !...I can see the pluses and minuses of GM food and I ask tell myself that we are saturated with ' E ' numbers and additives and various radiations/germs/bacteria etc etc all through our lives anyway...so...what difference does Gm really do !! ?  in the grand scale of things ?

[Seany]

I said "Good Idea".

Carrots used to be purple. Genetically changed it so that it's more appealing to our eyes.

[another_someone]

I said "Good Idea".

Carrots used to be purple. Genetically changed it so that it's more appealing to our eyes.

The problem is the confusion between traditional 'genetic engineering', which breeders have long practiced, but never patented; and direct genetic modification which we now regard as 'genetic engineering', which is far more powerful than the traditional methods (as a nuclear bomb is more powerful than a bomb containing gunpowder, but they are both explosive devices).

[tony6789 (OP)]

im dont htink im to up for it any more...