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Poll: What do you think of GMO's?
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They're good and we need them
79.31%
23 79.31%
The science is still out and we need more research
10.34%
3 10.34%
They're more harmful than they're worth and we should do away with them
10.34%
3 10.34%
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What do you think of GMO's?
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RE: What do you think of GMO's?
(October 12, 2014 at 2:22 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(October 12, 2014 at 2:05 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Can anti-GMO people produce scientifically rigorous studies that conclude that GMO foods are more harmful than beneficial?
Sure, depending on what fulcrum you want to lay harmful and beneficial upon. GMO isn't very good for biodiversity (based on projected economic effects if nothing else) - even though it requires biodiversity as a toolkit. But thats -on farm- biodiversity (albeit of a global sort), not exactly teeming with multitudinous expressions of the wonder of life as-is....eh?

Actually, modern agriculture is terrible for genetic and biodiversity. Most economically significant crops are genetically virtually identical across the globe. The ancestral wild plant often show more genetic diversity within several acres of their natural environment than their descendant crop plant show across all the farms in the whole world. See potatoes.

The question is would GMO make it significantly worse.
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What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 12, 2014 at 12:43 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by DramaQueen - October 12, 2014 at 12:49 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 12, 2014 at 12:52 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by DramaQueen - October 12, 2014 at 12:54 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Anomalocaris - October 12, 2014 at 1:05 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Minimalist - October 12, 2014 at 12:56 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 12, 2014 at 12:56 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 12, 2014 at 1:18 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Thumpalumpacus - October 12, 2014 at 1:21 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 12, 2014 at 1:25 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Minimalist - October 12, 2014 at 1:27 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by c172 - October 12, 2014 at 1:27 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 12, 2014 at 1:42 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Clueless Morgan - October 12, 2014 at 2:05 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 12, 2014 at 2:22 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Chas - October 12, 2014 at 2:38 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Anomalocaris - October 12, 2014 at 8:35 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 12, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Minimalist - October 12, 2014 at 4:20 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Jenny A - October 12, 2014 at 7:13 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Chad32 - October 12, 2014 at 9:04 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Anomalocaris - October 12, 2014 at 9:19 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Valkyrie - October 12, 2014 at 9:28 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Chad32 - October 12, 2014 at 9:55 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 12, 2014 at 10:40 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Valkyrie - October 12, 2014 at 10:47 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 13, 2014 at 1:04 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by c172 - January 1, 2015 at 3:21 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 13, 2014 at 5:23 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by bennyboy - October 13, 2014 at 9:09 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by FatAndFaithless - October 13, 2014 at 9:10 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 13, 2014 at 9:24 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Anomalocaris - October 13, 2014 at 10:33 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by DramaQueen - October 13, 2014 at 9:30 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 13, 2014 at 11:19 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Chad32 - October 13, 2014 at 11:25 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by DramaQueen - October 13, 2014 at 11:35 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Anomalocaris - October 13, 2014 at 11:39 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by John V - October 16, 2014 at 11:10 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 16, 2014 at 5:07 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by John V - October 17, 2014 at 10:06 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by HopOnPop - October 18, 2014 at 12:56 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Ryantology - October 16, 2014 at 6:29 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2014 at 5:08 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by No_God - October 16, 2014 at 5:15 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2014 at 5:18 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by HopOnPop - October 16, 2014 at 6:15 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by FatAndFaithless - October 16, 2014 at 6:17 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by HopOnPop - October 17, 2014 at 1:14 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by FatAndFaithless - October 17, 2014 at 8:08 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by HopOnPop - October 17, 2014 at 10:44 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2014 at 6:47 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by TaraJo - October 16, 2014 at 9:34 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 17, 2014 at 10:43 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by John V - October 17, 2014 at 11:20 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 17, 2014 at 11:59 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Simon Moon - October 17, 2014 at 7:04 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Creed of Heresy - January 2, 2015 at 6:51 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - October 17, 2014 at 8:40 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Creed of Heresy - January 2, 2015 at 6:27 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - January 2, 2015 at 6:29 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Creed of Heresy - January 2, 2015 at 6:47 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by CapnAwesome - January 2, 2015 at 6:50 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by vorlon13 - January 2, 2015 at 8:24 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by bennyboy - January 2, 2015 at 10:00 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - January 2, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by vorlon13 - January 3, 2015 at 12:02 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by Creed of Heresy - January 3, 2015 at 4:53 am
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by CapnAwesome - January 4, 2015 at 12:31 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - January 3, 2015 at 12:29 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by vorlon13 - January 3, 2015 at 4:53 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by The Grand Nudger - January 4, 2015 at 12:57 pm
RE: What do you think of GMO's? - by CapnAwesome - January 4, 2015 at 2:09 pm

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