[Kosh]

Whacko Environmentalism Strikes Back

"In Belgium, a group of activists calling themselves the Field Liberation Movement has destroyed a field which was being used for a scientific experiment with genetically modified potatoes. In spite of the presence of 60 police officers protecting the field, activists succeeded pulling out the plants and sprayed insecticides over them, ruining the experiment. The goal of the experiment was to test potato plants which are genetically modified to be resistant to potato blight. It's a sad day for the freedom of scientific research."

[ssmit132]

*sigh*

[JCDNWarrior]

They destroyed a field with genetically modified potatoes? Guess they're not as bad as I first assumed.

Now if it were a field of much needed normal potatoes.. that would be a tragedy.

[Herra Tohtori]

Fix'd that for you

[JCDNWarrior]

Hehe, thanks for the laugh. I'm at my full time job and I have to bite through 8 hours of work before my extended weekend, so this makes it lighter.

Anyhow, 60 policeman guarding a field? Is a rainbow ending there or something? Having that said, I'm obviously not very excited with genetically modified stuff, especially this close to home. They could avoid potato blight by, yknow, letting the field rest or growing something else on it for a few years and planting potato plants on another field. Over here I see the fields being reused too much, which start to damage the quality of the potatoes after 2 years.

Then again I'm not a gardener myself.

[Mongoose]

Hehe, thanks for the laugh. I'm at my full time job and I have to bite through 8 hours of work before my extended weekend, so this makes it lighter.

Anyhow, 60 policeman guarding a field? Is a rainbow ending there or something? Having that said, I'm obviously not very excited with genetically modified stuff, especially this close to home. They could avoid potato blight by, yknow, letting the field rest or growing something else on it for a few years and planting potato plants on another field. Over here I see the fields being reused too much, which start to damage the quality of the potatoes after 2 years.

Then again I'm not a gardener myself.

Yeeeeeah...that's not how potato blight works.  At all.

[AtomicClucker]

Haha, they went after spuds?

Good thing they're not in Idaho, as the locals would probably lynch them (jokes aside, Idaho takes prides in its spuds and will kicketh heine if they're in danger).

[achtung]

GM crops give you cancer and make your babies come out with three arms. Only a select few get super powers.

[Mefustae]

GM crops give you cancer and make your babies come out with three arms. Only a select few get super powers.

End superhuman proliferation now! Put a stop to GM crops!

[Luis Dias]

Pathetic.

Not the thread. The thread is going in the right direction

[Ravenholme]

Hehe, thanks for the laugh. I'm at my full time job and I have to bite through 8 hours of work before my extended weekend, so this makes it lighter.

Anyhow, 60 policeman guarding a field? Is a rainbow ending there or something? Having that said, I'm obviously not very excited with genetically modified stuff, especially this close to home. They could avoid potato blight by, yknow, letting the field rest or growing something else on it for a few years and planting potato plants on another field. Over here I see the fields being reused too much, which start to damage the quality of the potatoes after 2 years.

Then again I'm not a gardener myself.

Yeeeeeah...that's not how potato blight works.  At all.

Oh good, saved from saying it myself. Except I might've been less humorous and more angry.

[Nuke]

im more concerned with the gm crops becoming self aware and starting a global thermonuclear war.

of course that would be kinda cool.

[NGTM-1R]

Oh good, saved from saying it myself. Except I might've been less humorous and more angry.

I think some anger is in order regardless.

[Luis Dias]

The eco-luddite-lunatics are taking over the world.

[Grizzly]

Soooooo. What was wrong with GM'ed stuff again?

[MP-Ryan]

I'm obviously not very excited with genetically modified stuff, especially this close to home.

I can't wait to hear this lunacy.  Why, precisely, do you object to genetically-modified crops or other foodstuffs?

[Astronomiya]

Soooooo. What was wrong with GM'ed stuff again?

Nothing.  However, if you ask the environmental loonies, you'll get an answer that amounts to the possibility of super bugs or crops all dying or it all poisoning you or somesuch.  It's all bull****, especially considering humans have been genetically engineering stuff for thousands of years (why hello there, selective breeding!).

Oh, and JCDNWarrior:  This is potato blight, responsible for several potato famines over the centuries.  GM potatoes can actually resist the disease.

[Snail]

I can't wait to hear this lunacy.  Why, precisely, do you object to genetically-modified crops or other foodstuffs?

(Devil's advocate) economical reasons, the company is trying to monopolize the food industry. They most be stopped.

[Herra Tohtori]

Genetically manipulated potatoes are ethically less problematic countermeasures against the Blight than Grey Wardens.

[karajorma]

Thousands of people died in the Irish potato famine!

Well if they will be picky eaters......

The comment about crop rotation reminded me of this a lot.