A little more clarity to GMO and why it can be a good thing

first off there are two types of Genetic modification. Gene selection and Gene Splicing

The bad one that Monsanto does is called Gene Splicing. taking a gene from one species of plant and applying it to another. the results are severe genetic abnormalities . sometimes they fail to isolate one gene and end up imprinting two or more others from the donor plant. ending in very dangerous results..

the second type. Gene selection is simply turning genes that are already native to the plant on or off.. its like breeding but skipping all the hard stuff.. this doesn't cause genetic defects in the plants and since your only turning switches on and off.. the rate for failure is far less.. and if you do get failure its a normal one that would occur in nature...

on that note I think the second type would not be a bad thing to do for marijuana.

GMO just has a bad rap because it's done by those who do "dumb" things with it, in the right hands it can do wonders~

#cheers

GMO has a bad rap because most of what monsanto(by far the largest propagator of GMO) has done is create round-up(bug and weed poison) ready plants... and that's all they've done. It's created more poison for workers in the fields and the surrounding environments. WE have kids with blisters on their legs and feet from this. These families grow soybeans to make a living; I'm sure some of you can relate to growing crops for money? Imagine doing it in a not so fortunate country and getting sick from being forced to spray your crops with a very strong chemical. Round up is also produced by Monsanto. Can anyone say profit profit profit?

Then we have the "terminator" genes which make it impossible to create seeds from the crop so the company can sell them instead. Plants create pollen! which spread to other native and heirloom species of plants as well as "standard" crops people have been growing all over the world for years and creates mutated plants with terminator genes in them. This is fucking up thousands of years of growing different varietals of corn in mexico for example. Oh ya, and also monsanto sues small farmers who end up with "their" genes on that given farmers field which is total fucking bullshit. Alls we need is more subsidies and standardization of crops /sarcasm which creates massive financial issues, soil problems and food production because small time farmers get locked into a messy big government system that is incredibly inefficient, as many big government programs are, and big companies win again. They win too much.

This happens all over the world, cotton in India, corn in mexico, soybeans all over the place, probably rice, I don't even know the full extent of this massive issue. They have outlawed GMOs in most of Europe for a reason. We're too irresponsible and corrupt with lobbyists to do so in the U.S. So we started the non-GMO project, a decent start to resisting control. I'm not preaching organic at all but if buying organic means non-GMO then I'm all for it, so that's what I buy mostly. I don't think GMOs will hasten my death and nor do I care. Although studies have shown GMOs to create free radicals(cancer causers) in the body. Everyone argues about this so I won't even get into it. It is destruction, corruption and control for profit I am mostly worried about. GMOs have not helped the wellbeing of people on this planet.

This all started with a promise in the 90's to produce more efficient plants that produced bigger nutrient rich "fruits" of our labor. This has not happened even in the slightest degree. I remember the commercials promises. I was so happy . They tried to produce a drought resistant plant of some kind that failed and of which the fruit was nutrient deficient garbage. Similar to the cotton fiasco in India. I do hope to see some company, probably not Monsanto, come up with something brilliant that results in better crops. Yes, I have heard of the beta-carotene producing rice "Golden Rice". Very cool idea. More stuff like that please. Less terminator Round-up ready gene garbage. One good thing about that is at least it keeps this shit from spreading and hopefully doesn't destroy to many heirloom crops. All in all, we have a serious problem, and a serious hope. Both need to be dealt with properly.

The main purpose for genetic mutations is scientific research.

When trying to isolate the genetic expressions responsible for certain morphological changes, mutants are used along with wild-type in various experiments to see whether a certain gene is responsible.

A good example of this is starch excess mutants. These mutants have their DNA spliced with bacteria DNA so that the mechanism responsible for regulating starch synthesis is "always on", hence starch excess. When comparing wild type of a given species to the starch excess mutants, the wild type will use normal environmental conditions to determine how much starch to produce, while the starch excess mutant will always test the same in starch content, very starchy.

Again, the purpose of this mutant is to learn more about how genetics work. It's very good research that could not be done otherwise.


(starch iodine test. Starch shows up black)

That's cool, I dig experimentation with it for sure. Very interesting.

Not only pollen, but viruses and pests spread that DNA all over the place. Countries trading real wealth like water, minerals, food for loans that they can't ever repay and as a consequence forever enrich private corporations is pretty f-ed up aside from the GMO thing.

If someone would come up with a plant that will not get fungus or mold I would try it. The southeast is hot and rainy all summer.

no

libtards all of you.. do some research and dont go to stupid organic hippies with no science background to tell you how bad they are.