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Frankenrice; The Rice is People!!!
Topic Started: Jun 18 2012, 11:07 AM (215 Views)
Les Jun 18 2012, 11:07 AM Post #1
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 I would like our sciency people to reassure me that Frankenrice isn't going to cause the end of the World, please. Thank you.
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(NaturalNews) Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience is currently being grown on 3,200 acres in Junction City, Kansas -- and possibly elsewhere -- and most people have no idea about it.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035745_GMO_rice...l#ixzz1y8cYjnfO
 
OMGBanana Jun 18 2012, 02:12 PM Post #2
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 ewwww ewwwww ewwwww ewwwwwww ewwwwwwww

that is wrong on so many levels.....i will not be eating human rice, thats practically canniballism
 
Les Jun 18 2012, 03:21 PM Post #3
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 It's worse! It's liver DNA and, frankly, I don't do offal. :(
 
sherry Jun 18 2012, 03:44 PM Post #4
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 Puke Puke and more Puke
 
Duck Jun 18 2012, 06:24 PM Post #5
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 I watched a fun little experiment yesterday where a strong magnet was used to pull the iron (yes the stuff you make nails and ships out of) out of breakfast cereal. I was rather surprised at how much you can get from a cup full. Worse yet, they don't really know if that particular iron does any good in your food.
 
Les Jun 18 2012, 06:31 PM Post #6
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 :( So frankenrice is just the tip of the iceberg and we're all doomed.
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Fells Jun 21 2012, 06:01 PM Post #7
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 If it cooks like rice and tastes like rice I have no problem eating it like rice.

The 'human DNA' label is also misleading when you consider that we share 98% of the same DNA with, for example, rats.
 
Les Jun 21 2012, 06:12 PM Post #8
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 Still don't fancy eating human liver flavoured rice. Yuk. yuck
 
Duck Jun 21 2012, 06:14 PM Post #9
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 Eating a banana? you are eating 96% human DNA.
 
Les Jun 21 2012, 06:16 PM Post #10
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 Don't care. Not eating it (I hope). Told you - I don't like liver and, more to the point, I don't like them messing about with the things people eat. Especially rice which is the staple diet of millions of people. Whatever DNA is in bananas is natural. The human liver DNA in the rice isn't.
 
Duck Jun 21 2012, 07:11 PM Post #11
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 We've been messing with our food ever since we stopped being hunter gatherers and started farming. 20.000 years ago we were all lactose intolerant, look at us now.
 
Fells Jun 21 2012, 07:15 PM Post #12
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 They mess about with it for the very purpose of feeding the poor - imagine the difference having a grass that was able to survive in conditions that it couldn't ordinarily - how many people could be fed
 
Fells Jun 21 2012, 07:17 PM Post #13
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 And that humble banana - the bane of the Creationist - manipulated by Man to look and taste exactly as it does.
 
Les Jun 21 2012, 07:26 PM Post #14
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 I'm all for applying the precautionary principle in this case. Until they can prove that genetically modified plants are not a threat to the planet's biodiversity, human health and so on, then I think it needs to be kept in very restricted environments.
 
Duck Jun 21 2012, 07:33 PM Post #15
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 Oh come on, who doesn't want a banana with teeth or a tomato with tentacles? :D

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Fells Jun 21 2012, 07:35 PM Post #16
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 I'd rather we were better able to feed the people affected by severe drought - we can't make it rain but we can introduce hardy food plants through GM
 
Les Jun 21 2012, 07:45 PM Post #17
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 @ Duck. NO! Unequivocally no.

@ Fells. And was that the kind of charitable thinking that led farmers to feed animal waste products to their cows and sheep? Look where that seems to have got us. There's research going on into ways to breed better wheat without messing with it genetically.
 
Fells Jun 21 2012, 08:19 PM Post #18
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 Nice straw man, Les. No, I won't indulge it.
 
Les Jun 21 2012, 08:26 PM Post #19
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 No it wasn't. It was an example of man forcing through a quick change in a foodstuff which caused harm.
Can you honestly tell me that there's no threat to us or our environment by the introduction of GM food? Surely we have to guard against damage to our environment brought about by the introduction of non natural plants into our bio systems. I won't even mention Japanese Knotweed. (Yes I will, but you don't have to indulge it). :D
 
Fells Jun 21 2012, 10:04 PM Post #20
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Les
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No it wasn't. It was an example of man forcing through a quick change in a foodstuff which caused harm.

It was a straw man, Les. The conditions that caused BSE had nothing to do with variety modification (genetic or otherwise) - it was caused by unethical feeding of animals including using, among other things, spinal chords.

GM alters plant's DNA - specific genetic switches that cause intolerance to certain conditions or incorporating genes that are known to allow hardiness in other plants that survive in barren conditions (including alpine plants). Mentioning other farming methods, such as those that caused BSE, which have nothing to do with genetic modification is scaremongering and based on poor logic and science.
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Can you honestly tell me that there's no threat to us or our environment by the introduction of GM food?

I can honestly say that there has been no identified threat to our environment in the 10 years of controlled study.
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Surely we have to guard against damage to our environment brought about by the introduction of non natural plants into our bio systems.

There is nothing synthetic about GM crops.
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I won't even mention Japanese Knotweed.

That's the wonderful thing about GM, you can inhibit the genes that cause dominant spreads - or the genes that make them fertile.
 
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