I am curious about the aspects of this issue that you have ignored....with all due respect.
these issues have not been ignored, they have been buried in the bullshit of DNAprotection's linkdumps, welcome back kotter video postings and name calling. ill separate the issues and respond to each individually for ease of access.
Why genetically modify a coded sequence that evolution has defined?
for the same reasons we selectively breed plants into forms which simply cannot survive without our assistance, but provide us with a crop which we desire. we NEED maize wheat rice and other cereal grains, because nothing else provides the nutritional density and long term storage to feed us, and our livestock. any technology, innovation or cultivar which promises to increase productivity or reduce the need for pesticides and fertilizers is very desirable.
Besides profit, what makes restricting this Un-American exactly?
the restrictors seek to stop progress, and ban an entire line of scientific research because of their irrational fears, and telling another person that they cannot do a thing because youre afraid they cant be trusted with it is un-american as a motherfucker.
To what experience do you owe your certainty on the matter?
farming for most of my life. i know the market, i know the pressures a farmer is under and why farms fail. it's all about making the mortgage and paying the property tax, once youve got those two big problems sorted the rest of farming is easy. (comparatively)
any technology or innovation that offers the hope of bigger harvests, less expense in fertilizers and pesticides, and less chance youll loose the entire crop to budworms, boll weevils or locusts is not something you can just snatch away because your afraid that pollen from my feild will contaminate the "native ecoshpere" which does not naturally contain corn, wheat, rice, potatoes, or any other domestic crop. it's just silly, and the stakes are too high for farmers who are already on the hind tit, and up against the wall.
GMO's are not by any stretch a certainty since only a few GMO's have actually fulfilled their promises, most fail miserably, but the technology itself still has the promise of huge success. james watt didnt invent the steam engine, he simply made it better, working on existing steam engines which had been around for 50 years before he was born. thats how technology advances, a slow building on the existing knowledge until sucess makes a revolution occur. back at the time, theree were a group of fools called the Luddites who wanted to ban steam engines and all industrial machines, for their own financial security, but they wer shortsighted fools, as are the fools demanding we abandon all Genetic research because they are afraid, or, like DNAporotection, he has a personal profit motive.
Does DNA have intrinsic value...why/why not?
of course.
any unique cultivar, whether a natural mutant (like the commercial bananas which are ALL every last one, cloned from a single mutant plant, called the Cavendish plant) a selectively bred marvel (like soft winter wheat, which has fed more people than anyone can count) or a GMO from some lab could prove to be of great value, and in those cases, the genetic code of those cultivars are priceless. if you like sweet red juicy apples, red tasty tomatoes, bread of every description, popcorn, sweet corn, meal corn, hominy, wild rice, basmati rice, long grain short grain sushi, etc etc etc all these plants are cultivars and each has it's own unique genetics, and those genetics are valuable. GMO's do not destroy existing cultivars, they ADD to our stock of plants, some winners, some losers, but it is addition, not destruction.
Do you ever purchase non-GMO organic produce?
i prefer the non-gmo varieties both as a grower and as a buyer, since they are good. they are proven, and they deliver. there have as yet been NO successful GMO food crops, since they have all balanced their promised benefits, with equal or greater negatives.
BT corn doesnt really stop the bud worm. or the corn root worm, only reduces the damage, while judicious use of pesticides ENDS the problem, and in the final analysis, the pesticides wind up costing less than the BT seed prices.
roundup ready crops are fucking worthless to most non-corporate farmers since we dont generally use herbicides except to clear weeds around grapevines and fruit and nut trees, and in those cases, it is hand sprayed very carefully by a PCA (professional Pest Control Applicator) and in pastures to control spurge (a deadly poisonous plant that kills livestock if it grows in your pasture, the sap from spurge will blister your skin and when eaten it is lethal) which is the only time any herbicide is sprayed in a wide area.
giant corporate farms which use roundup as their first last and only solution to kill weeds desire a plant which is immune to roundup so they can just hose down their giant feilds indiscriminately, but roundup ready crops are merely RESISTANT to roundup, so when you spray your feild to kill the weeds you fuck up your own crops, so if you use too much, you lose the entire crop, if you use too little you still have weeds which increases the costs for harvest and processing and reduced overall yield, and if you use JUST ENOUGH you reduce your yield a little and kill off almost all the weeds, but in the end you didnt really save that much per acre. but when your tilling half a million acres, an extra $5 an acre really adds up. if youre tilling 50 to 100 acres, not so much.
Does human evolution technologically negate the sovereignty of all non-humans?
the what? dude. sheep dont have sovereignty. nor do cows, and fucking barley and sorghum definately dont.
In the preceding questions you have a choice to be intellectually honest or dismiss it as the work of a moron. Your input would be appreciated as would a level of respect. I am interested in whether arrogance or intellect motivates your slander and the truth as you know it to be. This is simply your voice, no debate, no links, just answers.
i hope this clears up some of your questions.