Modern orange carrots are the result of a genetically modified purple carrot.

Everything is natura-jove burkey

Everything will kill you. U stay in the sun too long it can kill you. You stay in the water too long it can kill you in inhale pure oxygen it can kill you. 

We've been modifying the genes of things since agriculture was a thing. We're just doing it more effectively.

Everything will kill you. U stay in the sun too long it can kill you. You stay in the water too long it can kill you in inhale pure oxygen it can kill you.

That's not the same.

Quote from: XSEAN on September 02, 2015, 09:52:27 AM

Everything will kill you. U stay in the sun too long it can kill you. You stay in the water too long it can kill you in inhale pure oxygen it can kill you.

That's not the same.

U scare a computer too long it can kill you, you listen to op opinion it can kill you

Quote from: Jocephalopod on September 02, 2015, 02:57:53 PM

what watermelons used to look like




http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150821-watermelon-fruit-history-agriculture/

granted this is a result of breeding.



but so is everything else.

That's actually just how they look if the plant haven't gotten enough water.

yea i got a bad picture, the article does a better job showing the evolution

GMOs get jove burkey big and strong - jove burkey

Quote from: SecondClass on September 02, 2015, 03:14:58 PM

It's not about eating natural, it's about not eating poison. There's nothing wrong with genetically modifying organisms, there's everything wrong with the additives that Monsanto puts into theirs.

But I guess that doesn't help your strawman argument, huh?

The argument isn't that GMOs are inherently good. They aren't. The argument is that they aren't inherently evil just because "they're not natural ", as some people think.

I've never used this argument against GMOs. Computers aren't natural. Medicine isn't natural.

The thread isn't directed at you.

But everything is about me

As long as it doesn't give me cancer idgaf

Then you should gaf

Then you should gaf

But its not giving me Gonasiphaherpaids

Quote from: Cerulean on September 03, 2015, 12:23:24 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on September 02, 2015, 03:14:58 PM

It's not about eating natural, it's about not eating poison. There's nothing wrong with genetically modifying organisms, there's everything wrong with the additives that Monsanto puts into theirs.

But I guess that doesn't help your strawman argument, huh?

The argument isn't that GMOs are inherently good. They aren't. The argument is that they aren't inherently evil just because "they're not natural ", as some people think.

I've never used this argument against GMOs. Computers aren't natural. Medicine isn't natural.

Well, actually, they are. They aren't naturally occuring, yes. But because they're a product of universal and atomic reactions, and follow all the established universal laws, yes, by definition, they are natural. But I get your point. A computer doesn't just pop up out of the ground if you plant it.

Medicine, on the other hand, is just simple structures. Hell, everything we've ever built or made came from a natural existing structure in nature. All we did is refine things a little bit.

That of course doesn't mean that I support GMOs. The actual main problems with GMO crops aren't the hidden shit and unknown shit that we aren't told, or even the stuff that's not known to the designers themselves.

It's the fact that they're peddled and pushed down people's throats. Laws exist to keep GMOs in production over just regular old plants. A farmer isn't allowed to sell his crop to anybody but the company he signs his contract with.

And, what does this all amount to? GMO's don't function naturally with the existing ecosystem. They don't reproduce because they're designed not to. They don't fit into the existing natural framework of the environment. So, when you have all these fields of GMO crops that don't pollinate, don't spread their seeds, and don't properly feed other life forms, what happens?

Environmental collapse.

That, and the fact that GMO crops are tailored. They're designed to fit a standard which therefore means that they're relatively identical to one another. History, evolution, you name it, has shown that too much of the same gene pool, or lack of diversity, is a bad thing when strain and pressure is introduced. That's how species die out.

Lack of variables.

GMOs wouldn't be such a shitty thing if they weren't becoming widespread replacements to everything, and actively muscling their way over everybody who wants an alternative. The supposed and potential cancerous health issues?

Fucking everything today gives you cancer anyway. We're surrounded in an environment that is cancerous.