Geneticly Engineered foods...

[ChefWide]

Interested in some intelligent commentary on Genetically Engineered foods. AtlantaBiolab, is this in your field? Any pros and cons that have some merit, and if you can a link to documentation to back it up, that would be great. I have my own opinions on this, but I need to broaden my perspective and do some learning at the same time.

I just got an 'invitation' to discuss this with a lackey of some lobbyist, I think there must be some congressional hearing/debate coming up in the spring.

 

[WODIN]

Those ultra huge onions from Texas just kick ass!!! LOL!!!

 

[havoc]

http://www.thecampaign.org/

 

[WODIN]

I want somone to cross a zuccini with a piranah. Man eating Zuccini!!

 

[CipherLock]

Some lame ass was telling me that they can re-engineer low grade diamonds into the highest grade to get a 100 dollar diamond to be worth 20,000 or something.

What I need to know is if we can take the Whopper and make it worth 120p, 0c, 0f with the same taste.

Can we do that?

 

[WODIN]

I'm with cipher here..

 

[CipherLock]

Who can I address my letter writing campaign to?

 

[ChefWide]

Some lame ass was telling me that they can re-engineer low grade diamonds into the highest grade to get a 100 dollar diamond to be worth 20,000 or something.

What I need to know is if we can take the Whopper and make it worth 120p, 0c, 0f with the same taste.

Can we do that?

As far as diamonds are concerned, its being done in russia right now, as far as you needing a whopper protein delivery, I got yer whopper right here, dred.

 

[havoc]

You can find that exact ratio in one scoop of Mass Quantities whey protein.

 

[CipherLock]

Chef - yer an old perv.

Havoc, that still ain't a Whopper, and if you don't know the difference then you might as well be a physical equipment salesman.

 

[TheProject]

I want somone to cross a zuccini with a piranah. Man eating Zuccini!!

No, dude...it's gotta be a tomato, not a zucchini! Then we could remake Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

 

[ChefWide]

yep, high caliber morning crew responses, thanks all.

 

[TheProject]

yep, high caliber morning crew responses, thanks all.

I'm here to help.

 

[FreeballinDC]

Let me know when they engineer muscular studs with no brains so they don't feel obligated to talk about.....

Oh, wait.....

 

[ChefWide]

Let me know when they engineer muscular studs with no brains so they don't feel obligated to talk about.....

Oh, wait.....

Science waits for no man.

 

[Lao Tzu]

A con is the fact that cross pollination can occur. Another con is we dont know the risks of genetically modified food.

Aside from that the only people who ive seen oppose it are environmentalists who only oppose it because its not 'natural'.

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/geff4.html#Anchor-Increased-58464

 

[benevolent anarchist]

I’ll try to save your topic, Chef. But before this discussion gets started, why not look at why foods are genetically engineered in the first place. It's done to make healthier, stronger agriculture, which also will produce more volume, thus, helping to aid starvation problems around the word.

 

[Tarheel]

I think the argument gets blown out of proportion a lot of times.

We've been selectively breeding foods for like 10,000 years, this is just the next step. Now we engineer them to last longer in transit, grow bigger, be hardier, more drought resistant, bigger crop volumes, better colors, etc, granted sometimes we dont know wtf we're doing. Jurassic Park has some good quotes related to this, granted, they're talking about bringing an extinct species back and not making tomatoes that last in the fridge longer.

"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it." - Ian Malcolm

 

[atlantabiolab]

Interested in some intelligent commentary on Genetically Engineered foods. AtlantaBiolab, is this in your field? Any pros and cons that have some merit, and if you can a link to documentation to back it up, that would be great. I have my own opinions on this, but I need to broaden my perspective and do some learning at the same time.

I just got an 'invitation' to discuss this with a lackey of some lobbyist, I think there must be some congressional hearing/debate coming up in the spring.

I have some experience with GMO's, but only in the analytical end. I used to work for a company which tested crops for GMO's so I know how they are detected (PCR analysis/ELISA assays).

As far as the debate over their controversy, I side with the biotech crowd, although I have not extensively studied the issue. From my exposure to the evidence presented on both sides, I feel that the empirical evidence sides with the benefit and safety of GMO's. The fact that most anti-GMO advocates are hardcore environmentalists and statists does not help them in winning my favor, also. Also, the "precautionary principle" is heavily voiced in this issue, which also tends to make them more repugnant.

 

[ChefWide]

I’ll try to save your topic, Chef. But before this discussion gets started, why not look at why foods are genetically engineered in the first place. It's done to make healthier, stronger agriculture, which also will produce more volume, thus, helping to aid starvation problems around the word.

I have been with chefs on both sides of this coin in some heated arguments. My feelings lead to the incredible benefits for emerging economies to use engineered crops to avoid the disasters that comonly befall oranic growers