All sweet potatoes are GMO (genetically modified) - naturally (Walmart, kids, foreign)

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

I think carrots used to be purple until the Dutch selectively planted only the mutant orange kind to match their flag.

today i found out

[shooting4life]

The science is setltled, wait, I'm getting my threads confused.

[wildflower82]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

I think carrots used to be purple until the Dutch selectively planted only the mutant orange kind to match their flag.

Originally Posted by uggabugga

today i found out

Interesting......I still prefer the orange, no matter how it happened. Purple is for eggplants and beets....

[TrafficCory]

Originally Posted by shooting4life

The science is setltled, wait, I'm getting my threads confused.

You are confused but I'm here to help you out. The only settled science is Climate Science and Social Science. They got that stuff wrapped up tight. Real tight.

GMO's? Thousands of scientific peer-reviewed articles simply stating that GMO's are not harmful=Well it's a little murkey, did you see "GMO OMG"? I just tweeted about it.

Vaccines? Thousands of peer reviewd scientific and medical professionals are on one side. Kooks on the other. Liberals=Well we're still not to sure about the science on this one.

Good grief.

[arctichomesteader]

All genetic engineering is not the same. The "terminator" gene is an example of something that should never have been done. I'm also not a fan of creating plants that produce pesticides or are resistant to herbicides. There are incidents where I think some genetic engineering might be of use. The American chestnut tree, eliminated by an exotic pathogen, could be restored using genetic engineering, as SUNY researchers are doing. They're putting a single plant gene from wheat into a chestnut tree. Others are looking at the genes in Chinese chestnut trees that allow them to resist the blight to isolate them and put them in American trees. I don't see a danger from that. When greed is the motivation, as with Monsanto, what's good for people and the environment is overlooked if it can be profitable.

[Ponderosa]

Our dogs are GMO wolves.

[Hyperthetic]

Originally Posted by Hyperthetic

Maybe the bugs were infected by the potatoes.

One must consider the Eater versus the Eaten possibilities.

DNA is data.

The first talked about act of horizontal gene transfer, from plants to animals, was when humans first ate of the tree of data (knowledge).

Snakes are mostly horizontal to the plane and simple.

It all went down in the Garten of Eaten.

Verticality is old hat now.

[Hyperthetic]

Monsanto knows that you are what you eat, but they won't tell you that.

[JimRom]

Comparing the cultivation of sweet potatoes wit the genetic modification that Monsanto does is like comparing apples and avacados. Monsanto is actively pursuing science that would make food crops sterile, meaning that farmers would have to purchase new seed every year rather than being able to save their own seed from last year's crop. While natural or even planned crossbreeding will occasionally result in a sterile plant, you would be hard pressed to find an entire crop of hybridized plants that were nonreproductive.

What absolutely amazes me about the GMO debate is that the same people who claim that corporations are greedy and evil are perfectly willing to trust one of the largest corporations in existence with their food supply.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

I think carrots used to be purple until the Dutch selectively planted only the mutant orange kind to match their flag.

Well, there ya go! Crazy dope smokin' bastids!