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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030101495.html

The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in high-tech plants could escape and turn up in other foods

There is a limit of what we should be doing with GM foods. To me this crosses the line.

What are your concerns thoughts on GM foods?

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...There is a limit of what we should be doing with GM foods. To me this crosses the line.

What are your concerns thoughts on GM foods?

Don't worry...Cancon rules would still apply to those human genes! ;)

Economics trumps Virtue. 

 

Guest TrueMetis
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You're against medicine? Because that's what's being made here. These things aren't going to be allowed out for years, not until they been through a massive battery of testing. You may see something with this in it on the shelves in 2015-2017.

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I see nothing wrong with this. In fact, given sufficient testing, I see nothing wrong with modifying genomes of humans themselves (in the embryonic stage) for reasons such as eliminating genetic diseases, improving physical and intellectual potential, augmenting the immune system, extending lifespan, etc.

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I see nothing wrong with this. In fact, given sufficient testing, I see nothing wrong with modifying genomes of humans themselves (in the embryonic stage) for reasons such as eliminating genetic diseases, improving physical and intellectual potential, augmenting the immune system, extending lifespan, etc.

Speaking of intellectual potential...how about reducing the chance of being born with an enlarged amygdala?

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May be helpful in Third World countries but keep it out of Canadian food supply. There are people with health issues that can't have protein and I can see lawsuit if they do in North America.

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If CEO's of these companies are willing to test for 10 years on their own kids first, then thats good enough for me!

I question things because I am human. And call no one my father who's no closer than a stranger

Guest TrueMetis
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May be helpful in Third World countries but keep it out of Canadian food supply. There are people with health issues that can't have protein and I can see lawsuit if they do in North America.

Hence labels there genius.

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Hence labels there genius.

Ever read those labels?? :D Ever understand what some of those ingredients you cannot pronounce are? We have labels for 'organic' items, but not for the rest of the food, which .. is .. not organic? Meaning everything else is or has genetically modified ingredients.

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Speaking of intellectual potential...how about reducing the chance of being born with an enlarged amygdala?

:)

I don't know if no one else got this, eyeball, or if they just ignored it.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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Why is that even necessary? I mean why do we even need to look up ingredients because we have no idea what they are?

What? If you don't know what something is and want to know, you can use Google (or other means) to find out.

I don't understand what it is you want. Would you prefer that products that contain ingredients that "you cannot pronounce" simply did not exist?

Guest TrueMetis
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Ever read those labels?? :D Ever understand what some of those ingredients you cannot pronounce are? We have labels for 'organic' items, but not for the rest of the food, which .. is .. not organic? Meaning everything else is or has genetically modified ingredients.

Just because you don't know what they are doesn't mean it's hard to figure out what they are.

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