Genetically modified food, what is really going on, why are they genetically altering our food.??

[52ndStreet]

My question is why are many food companies genetically modifying our food?. What is the point, and what is really going on with all this genetically modified food.??!! Is there any danger here, with genetically modified food.??!!

 

[Woodznutz]

Greed and ignorance.

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[okfine]

It's only your food if you consume it.

 

[daveman]

There is no food at all that isn't genetically-modified.

Now, genetic modification isn't all mad-scientisty with micro-manipulators splicing genes at the molecular level.

No, it's selective breeding of farm animals and crops to get them to be more productive and more resistant to disease.

This is a wild banana:

Lots of seeds, not much meat on it. I'm not interested.

But careful breeding has given us large, seedless bananas.

Which banana do you want?

 

[Woodznutz]

There is no food at all that isn't genetically-modified.

Now, genetic modification isn't all mad-scientisty with micro-manipulators splicing genes at the molecular level.

No, it's selective breeding of farm animals and crops to get them to be more productive and more resistant to disease.

This is a wild banana:

Lots of seeds, not much meat on it. I'm not interested.

But careful breeding has given us large, seedless bananas.

Which banana do you want?

Most food crop improvements have come from simply planting the seeds from the better plants.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

My question is why are many food companies genetically modifying our food?. What is the point, and what is really going on with all this genetically modified food.??!! Is there any danger here, with genetically modified food.??!!

As Daveman stated, it's not all bad.
Horticulturists and farmers have been cross breeding plants since the first farmer thought over 10,000 years ago "hey, I wonder if I can mix this one with that one"?

This is why we have orange carrots instead of purple.
This is why we have "seedless" bananas and watermelons.
This is why there are so many varities of corn.

Florists also do this......cross breeding one color rose with a differet type to get a larger, smaller, brighter, or different color rose.

The actual use of GENETIC ALTERING by man started in the late 70s/early 80s.

At first, it was claimed they wanted to do it to eliminate the uses of pescticides. A hardier plant prone detremental to bugs and diseases doesn't need pesticides sprayed on it.........therefore making it "healthier" and "safer" for consumtion.

What they FAILED to understand THEN, and FAIL to understand NOW........is that changing the DNA of something, changes the way it behaves during cultivation and processing, as well as being consumed.

Even after 40 or so years of genetically altered plants, they still don't know how it is affecting animals or humans, as you need to study several generations of them to study.

There could be absoultely nothing wrong with genetically altered foods, or it could be causing us great harm.
But we won't know until about the year 2100, when there's been enough generations of DNA to study.

BUT........be safe and assured to know, we ARE ALL guinea pigs for the government and corrupt companies in this country.......testing their new chemicals, medications, and artifical additives on in EVERYTHING we consume.

 

[Concerned American]

There is no food at all that isn't genetically-modified.

Now, genetic modification isn't all mad-scientisty with micro-manipulators splicing genes at the molecular level.

No, it's selective breeding of farm animals and crops to get them to be more productive and more resistant to disease.

This is a wild banana:

Lots of seeds, not much meat on it. I'm not interested.

But careful breeding has given us large, seedless bananas.
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Which banana do you want?

There have been successes, but there are just as many or more failures. I wish I could find a commercially available tomato that tasted like a tomato--same with strawberries. Both are big and beautiful, but they lack the flavor that I loved.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

There have been successes, but there are just as many or more failures. I wish I could find a commercially available tomato that tasted like a tomato--same with strawberries. Both are big and beautiful, but they lack the flavor that I loved.

True. Modern genetically altered foods have no flavor or taste.
I remember what REAL strawberries, REAL bananas, and REAL tomatoes taste like........INCLUDING REAL chicken!!!!

What we have today tastes NOTHING like I had when I was younger. Especially the bananas.

I will say, if you can find some locally grown/private farm Beefsteak tomatoes.....those still taste pretty effing good!!!!
To me, those are the BEST tomatoes ever!!

 

[toobfreak]

My question is why are many food companies genetically modifying our food?. What is the point,

I can't speak to every instance but most of the time, it is done to increase disease resistance (from having fields and fields full of the same plants all susceptible to the same insects or fungi), which increases productivity, which increases profits. Sometimes it is done to make the food bigger or look better.

 

[Woodznutz]

This is why we have orange carrots instead of purple.
This is why we have "seedless" bananas and watermelons.
This is why there are so many varieties of corn.

I think we jumped the shark on this one.

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."

And actually, there are fewer varieties of corn being planted.

 

[Concerned American]

True. Modern genetically altered foods have no flavor or taste.
I remember what REAL strawberries, REAL bananas, and REAL tomatoes taste like........INCLUDING REAL chicken!!!!

What we have today tastes NOTHING like I had when I was younger. Especially the bananas.

I will say, if you can find some locally grown/private farm Beefsteak tomatoes.....those still taste pretty effing good!!!!
To me, those are the BEST tomatoes ever!!

The last really good tomatoes that I bought in the grocery store was in the late 90s. I could smell them across the aisle. They came from Belgium and they were spendy but soooo good. I've grown some good Early Girls in CA, but the season is too short here in WA to get a really good tomato.

 

[Concerned American]

I can't speak to every instance but most of the time, it is done to increase disease resistance (from having fields and fields full of the same plants all susceptible to the same insects or fungi), which increases productivity, which increases profits. Sometimes it is done to make the food bigger or look better.

or last longer.

 

[toobfreak]

This is a wild banana: Lots of seeds, not much meat on it. I'm not interested.
But careful breeding has given us large, seedless bananas.
Which banana do you want?

Same with corn. Technically, corn is really just an oversized grass plant with really big seeds.

 

[Woodznutz]

The last really good tomatoes that I bought in the grocery store was in the late 90s. I could smell them across the aisle. They came from Belgium and they were spendy but soooo good. I've grown some good Early Girls in CA, but the season is too short here in WA to get a really good tomato.

I stopped buying tomatoes years ago (I'm too lazy to buy vine ripened ones at the farmers market).

 

[Mac-7]

My question is why are many food companies genetically modifying our food?. What is the point, and what is really going on with all this genetically modified food.??!! Is there any danger here, with genetically modified food.??!!

The reason is increased resistance to pests and disease

 

[toobfreak]

The last really good tomatoes that I bought in the grocery store was in the late 90s. I could smell them across the aisle. They came from Belgium and they were spendy but soooo good. I've grown some good Early Girls in CA, but the season is too short here in WA to get a really good tomato.

A lot depends also on the type plant whether determinant or indeterminate.
The determinant type grow smaller like a shrub, put out all their fruit at once then die. I don't think these taste as good. Those are probably better suited for your area where you can start them indoors then put them out in a container and pick a variety that blooms early enough to meet your season.

The better kind (IMO) are the indeterminate which grow more like a stalk, need support, and once they start fruiting, just keep growing, getting bigger and fruiting more until the frost kills them. These seem to also put out the biggest tomatoes.

 

[Woodznutz]

The reason is increased resistance to pests and disease

Healthy soil will provide that.

 

[Mac-7]

Healthy soil will provide that.

Not necessarily

To me the knock on GMO is the lack of diversity

No plant is disease proof

If the seed companies develop a seed that is more productive and all the farmers buy it there could be massive crop failure if the right virus comes along

 

[Dr.Destructo]

And actually, there are fewer varieties of corn being planted.

Because most have been spliced together to make the genetic equivalent of what we have today.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

There have been successes, but there are just as many or more failures. I wish I could find a commercially available tomato that tasted like a tomato--same with strawberries. Both are big and beautiful, but they lack the flavor that I loved.

Shipping times of commercial fruits and vegetables will always preclude that home-grown taste. Those days died probably back in the 1980s or so. Up until I moved, I could pick my own blackberries a couple of miles from my house, and they tasted nothing like the commercially sold version.