The Big Picture: Feeding Edge
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Selective breeding (I.e with carrots and cows) and genetic engineering are not the same thing. Neither are bad, just genetic engineering isn't just shutting on and off genes its making potatoes provide the correct proteins so they can be used for vaccinations (for human diseases) something which would never happen no matter how many potatoes you bred together.
I'm fine with both, this is more of a definitions thing.
I'm fine with both, this is more of a definitions thing.
Thank you very much Bob for this. Speaking as someone who is currently studying this field, it's great to see someone actually dispelling people's fears. Now, where did I put the DNA to make those living bagpipes?
Also fun field in this vein, synthetic biology, or the making of biological toys, like bacteria which can solve sudoku.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/18/e-coli-bacteria-solve-sud_n_785494.html
Also fun field in this vein, synthetic biology, or the making of biological toys, like bacteria which can solve sudoku.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/18/e-coli-bacteria-solve-sud_n_785494.html
As a chef, I get a lot of information about GMO's.
And frankly yes, just because its altered does not mean is dangerous. The only cause for concern is that when you alter food slightly over generations the body adapts to it. And hybridizing and husbandry combine the genes of the same species.
GMO's can have very harmful side effects, but it is by no means assured. Simple scientific testing can determine its saftety.
The REAL problem is that this testing is not done, and the FDA does not even require biotech firms to tell them if their food is genetically modified.
And frankly yes, just because its altered does not mean is dangerous. The only cause for concern is that when you alter food slightly over generations the body adapts to it. And hybridizing and husbandry combine the genes of the same species.
GMO's can have very harmful side effects, but it is by no means assured. Simple scientific testing can determine its saftety.
The REAL problem is that this testing is not done, and the FDA does not even require biotech firms to tell them if their food is genetically modified.
Good video, I want a carrot now...
The igorant masses will still continue to fear science though.
We should be able to do it the lazy way, not the way god intended!
The igorant masses will still continue to fear science though.
We should be able to do it the lazy way, not the way god intended!
Incredibly informative. Thanks for clearing this up.
Now, if only we could get the so-called "experts" and their shouting pundit friends to see this...
Now, if only we could get the so-called "experts" and their shouting pundit friends to see this...
i completely agree with this idea...
what's wrong with making our foods better or more appealing to the eye? i think people should stop getting so up in arms about making our food taste and look better and instead focus on things like
"WHY IS OUR SPACE PROGRAM BEING SHUT DOWN?!"
or
"WHEN ARE WE GONNA PAY BACK CHINA?!"
what's wrong with making our foods better or more appealing to the eye? i think people should stop getting so up in arms about making our food taste and look better and instead focus on things like
"WHY IS OUR SPACE PROGRAM BEING SHUT DOWN?!"
or
"WHEN ARE WE GONNA PAY BACK CHINA?!"
I agree with pretty much all of this video, but I have to take issue with one thing you said. Defibrillation doesn't work on "dead" things. It only works on certain types of electrical rhythms. This tissue is alive. It's just not functioning properly.
I always get irritated when I see people applying the paddles to someone who's flat-lining in television programs. You don't shock asystole. You shock ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
Just thought I'd put my two cents in.
I always get irritated when I see people applying the paddles to someone who's flat-lining in television programs. You don't shock asystole. You shock ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
Just thought I'd put my two cents in.
Purple Carrots 
... now I want to find one and try it. Stupid royal families deciding what color our vegetables are.
So if people are against genetically improved food does that mean they don't like the crossbreed food? Like a the cross of a apple and a what I think was a orange. Been awhile since I seen it so I forgot the cross but it tasted good.
... now I want to find one and try it. Stupid royal families deciding what color our vegetables are. So if people are against genetically improved food does that mean they don't like the crossbreed food? Like a the cross of a apple and a what I think was a orange. Been awhile since I seen it so I forgot the cross but it tasted good.
Yeah, I've never really been too sure why people make a fuss over GM foods for precisely that reason. Surely it doesn't matter whether it's done in a lab over a few years or in a field over a few centuries, since the end result is the same. I would say "Try telling that to Joe Public" but I suppose you just have...
