Does eating GM food bother you?

Since I eat mostly Buffalo, Elk and Venison I guess I eat less GM food than most. Mind you almost all of it is farmed, not wild. Once in a while I get some wild Venison but not often.
Those who eat a lot of fish that are not farm raised also get non GM foods. I often order non farmed fish when eating out but the side dishes will be GM, including potatoes and rice. Mind you living here I sometimes get real wild rice.
Also available are wild blueberries and raspberries.
Hoping for some Bear and Moose this fall, both wild.
I do miss hunting at times.

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Originally Posted by schmenke

No. Tinkering with DNA to produce more robust crops is a relatively new phenomenon. :s

Doesn't bother me in the least bit. Besides, It won't be very long before feeding the word's population won't be possible without endeavors like genetic modification :mark:

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What's the difference if it's done in a lab or by cross breading "in the field"? I'm failing to really see the difference?

And obviously it doesn't really bother me at all either.

Why did I read the title as "Dogs eating GM food bother you?"?

No food at all bothers me. Like Hazell's pardner, I use more care in selecting Sweetie's food ( IAMS ) than I do in selecting mine. On the other hand, I usually use fresh meats and fresh or frozen vegetables and don't mess with a lot of processed, junk, or fast foods. I do keep a weeks worth of canned goods in the pantry in the event of an emergency,i.,e., storm, power outage, etc.

Eating GM food does not phase me at all. If it tastes good, I'll eat it.

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Originally Posted by chuck34

What's the difference if it's done in a lab or by cross breading "in the field"? I'm failing to really see the difference?

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In the lab you can add new DNA to plants that you can't add through cross pollination. Farmers can use salmon genes to make tomatoes riper.

Essentially, new DNA is being added to food from various organisms and I am sure that in several places the potential side effects have not been fully investigated.


An article over a specific genetic engineering case worth thought:
http://www.ejnet.org/bgh/nogood.html
Not unbiased, but definitely worth reading.

That's right.
Today's modifications are done at the genetic level in a laboratory, not simply throwing a couple of different seeds together to see what they produce. The latter is simply selective breeding.
What we are doing today is at the microscopic level, searching for specific traits from DNA strands from one source (crop) and then splicing them into the strands of others to produce a more robust crop.

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

Eating GM food does not phase me at all. If it tastes good, I'll eat it.

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Not only food but women also.

Dont care even slightly. If I see something I like in the store, I will buy it and eat it.

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Originally Posted by anthonyvop

Not only food but women also.

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Cannibal... ;) :p

All the same, the 'folks' that do a lot of public ranting on this issue are often the same ones that are more appable to other types of control-based issues, such as smoking, diets, and other things that are left to the general public to decide upon.

Their 'beef' is, that if left to the public to decide, a substantial number may not choose to persue their point of observance, which has the tendency to make them quite agitated. So, it is their self-appointed mission to change how people make such choices, even to the point of using legal coersion (ie, Laws and Legal actions) as means to that end. Even science isn't an obstacle for them, as in the use of what is termed "Junk Science" (an ability to make the ends justify the means by making up faux scenarios and then applying methods to make it seem plausible).