[Bobboau]

And the Christians wonder why we need to teach evolution in schools

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=analysis:-super-weeds-pose

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[watsisname]

I've been coughing for over a month thanks to a profoundly antibiotic-resistant lung infection.  Thanks, evolution. =(

inb4 ignorant comments and ****storm

[redsniper]

Secretary of Dept. of Agriculture is former Monsanto lobbyist

Yay capitalism! Yay greed! Yay US politics and corporate ownership of government! Yay "**** forward thinking, I could be making more money NOW!"

[Bobboau]

well, no here's the thing, now they can sell a NEW (more expensive) herbicide/seed, you show your own short sightedness by calling "**** forward thinking". totally forward thought.

[mjn.mixael]

 

You couldn't just discuss the article.. you just had to make that topic title didn't you? Whatever ****storm this results in is your own doing and you obviously did it on purpose.

[deathfun]

some of which grow several inches in a day and defy even multiple dousings of the world's top-selling herbicide

I thought that was gasoline

[NeoKnight]

Well, that was a good read. Pity the same can't be said for the thread title. 

[Nuke]

i admittingly dont like bible thumpers either. not because they oppose science, but because they worship the bad guy. when will they learn that they should be worshiping satan? so dont go making an anti-bible thumper title for a topic about growing dope. its so very misleading.

[JCDNWarrior]

GMO companies like Monsanto have turned a decent idea for more food production to feed everyone into a nightmare where only their one-use 'terminator' seeds grow, and the foods produced are to say the least much less healthy than their natural counterparts. I think there's a need for much more research into GMO, and making sure to make things that are as close to their natural counterparts and do not cause illnesses and such, as well as the removal of companies such as Monsanto before it can and will be able to be used for positive means.

It doesn't have anything to do with christianity or evolution though. DNA mutation perhaps.

[Bobboau]

show me evidence that any GM food has caused any illness.
if they didn't have the terminator gene the GM crops would be growing wild, and I'm sure no one would be complaining about that.

[Colonol Dekker]

Super Weeds Pose Growing Threat to U.S.

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[JCDNWarrior]

show me evidence that any GM food has caused any illness.
if they didn't have the terminator gene the GM crops would be growing wild, and I'm sure no one would be complaining about that.

Plenty, do a google search for 'gmo causes cancer'. Too much to link, though a lot to sift through.

EDIT: Also interesting is 'gmo causes infertility'. Strange why pretty much all the GMO has that effect.

It's a interesting perspective to say that the terminator seeds would be growing wild, but it causes the seed costs to be much higher, as farmers would have to keep coming back to Monsanto. Also with a lot of Roundup in the soil, only Monsanto's stuff could grow. Loads of profits to be made there, ingeniously so.

[Dragon]

Recently, some documents were exposed about companies faking the test results to make their GMO seem more healthy than it is. While I'm not against GMO itself, I'm against stuff sold by corporations who lie to us. Their stuff is not safe, they just don't tell us, because it's be expensive.

[Goober5000]

Topic renamed.

[Grizzly]

It doesn't have anything to do with christianity or evolution though. DNA mutation perhaps.

DNA mutation does have something to do with evolution, and well, this has too. Plants resistent to a certain amount of roundup survive, and thus those quite resistant plants multiply. The farmer uses more roundup, the most resistant plants survive and multiply. And so on and so on. It's a textbook example of evolution.

Plenty, do a google search for 'gmo causes cancer'. Too much to link, though a lot to sift through.

Breathing also causes cancer*. Everyone can shout that 'X' shouts cancer, but you really have to come up with a decent research first.

* it truly does by the way. Oxygen causes our DNA to wither very slowly. Its why we age.

[Nuke]

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why do they all look high? even the dog.

[Bobboau]

/*runs away*/

NO.
You are the one telling me GM food contains magic that causes all what ails you, you are the one making a claim, you provide evidence to support it, unless you don't mind looking like a tin foiler.

also this has everything to do with evolution, this is evolution, or more accurately not taking evolution into account.

[bobbtmann]

Yep. If we weren't so quick to use herbicides and pesticides and antibiotics, then there wouldn't be as much pressure to become resistant. In a world without herbicides, being herbicide resistant would probably be a hindrance since it probably sacrifices something to become resistant.

[watsisname]

Plenty, do a google search for 'gmo causes cancer'. Too much to link, though a lot to sift through.

A Google-search for "2012 Nibiru" returns over 4 million results discussing some mystical celestial body smashing into us next year with Armageddon-style results, but that doesn't mean it's in the slightest bit true.

We'd like to see articles and investigations that convincingly show not just correlation, but a causal effect, between GMO and cancer/infertility.

[Bobboau]

and not just blog posts from whole foods sites.