Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

[Magus]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

OK, so, is there evidence of the tree baby in nature?

[highwind]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

They're out there.....

[Armored]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

Extinct, all that remains are tributes left by native americans..

[highwind]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

I didn't know trees had vaginas!!!

[Armored]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

Where else would tree babies come from? Take a logic class, sheesh.

[highwind]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

PFFFT. I don't know. Chlorophil or something.

[archerarmored]

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i'm going to go play contra now.

[Denmo]

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Awful flash, IMO.

[Crustyrailgun]

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Gah. Muffet. Need to lay off the alcohol...

Well I don't know about you but I think muppets are delicious, especially Kermit! Hmm... fuzzy frog legs!

...What that has to do with anything... not sure...

[The Toecutter]

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Have some tomatoes spliced with frog genes that keep them from dying when they freeze. Yum.

[Magus]

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OOOOH NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!

[IRC]

Re: Little Miss Muppet and her Genetically Modified Foods

wow, that was surreal.

[pinkymadigan]

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I thought the natural bananna was in fact already extinct anyway...
The original reason that I had heard (you've probably looked more at this than I have, like you do...) was that originally 90-some-odd percent of bananna (plants?trees?) were originally poisonous, and we specifically altered the genes of those plants to be edible, but I might be getting this story confused with something else. Either way, I for sure heard that natural banannas were dead and gone.

[The Toecutter]

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I thought the natural bananna was in fact already extinct anyway...
The original reason that I had heard (you've probably looked more at this than I have, like you do...) was that originally 90-some-odd percent of bananna (plants?trees?) were originally poisonous, and we specifically altered the genes of those plants to be edible, but I might be getting this story confused with something else. Either way, I for sure heard that natural banannas were dead and gone.

You're getting breeding mixed up with physically manipulating the genetics of the plant. Genetic engineering requires you take genes that the plant doesn't have and physically insert them into the plant. Say, you might want to put some spider genes or wold genes in a banana. Can't do that through breeding...

Genetic engineering was not possible before the mid 1990s.


But you are correct. The original banana bred to be consumed by humans is in fact extinct, replaced with another breed that still happens to be a banana, and not a GM one. Once we started genetically modifying them, new blights started to form for the plant, with the genetically modified banana generally resistant, but the non GM banana not.


Who knows how it will turn out. In the meantime, be careful what you eat.

[Czechs Mex]

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Have any of you guys ever heard of Neways? I'll put it stupidly because that's the only way I know how to put it: supposedly there's all kinds of carcinogens in products that we use everyday, not just genetically modified food. As far as I understand, Neways is a company that carries only products that are carcinogen-free. They're expensive as hell, though. Considering cancer's the 2nd leading cause of death in the U.S., this is something I've kind of been curious about.

*hoping terr does some research on this*

How much do you think cancer is caused by these products that we don't even realize are unsafe?