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NPMN
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Please, if you have the extra time, check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH4OwBYDQe8

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Freakenstein
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Oh I see. This is about Monsanto and genetically-altered crops and so forth, using the new products to take over the natural and creating a business out of it. Yeah, it's terrible, isn't it?

Hypermnestra
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Oh I see. This is about Monsanto and genetically-altered crops and so forth, using the new products to take over the natural and creating a business out of it. Yeah, it's terrible, isn't it?

Wait, was that sarcastic?
Genetically altered crops are good things. They provide easier-to-grow, more affordable crops, and the more crops, the better. There are, after all, people who are starving to death.
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Wait, was that sarcastic?
Genetically altered crops are good things. They provide easier-to-grow, more affordable crops, and the more crops, the better. There are, after all, people who are starving to death.


I have to agree with hypermenstra. The world needs these crops, and as long as we update the genetic alterations every few years, then we should be able to stay on top of it.
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Only problem is, as far as I know, we lack a long-time study about the effects of GMO products, as well as the effects of such plants on native species and ecosystems.

Secondly, the world will eventually need such crops if it goes on growing, but if we keep stable (which is just as good a thing, if not better than growing constantly) we won't necessarily. India harvests huge crops that could feed tons of people, but because they lack a proper silo system most of their harvests are spoilt before they can be used. And if you use every palm oil plantage on the world for crop instead, you'll feed more people too.

You see, GMO sure have advantages, but I feel like it's only a solution when you're too lazy to take care of the actual problems.

NPMN
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Please look at the video so you can understand the unethical ways Monsanto uses GMOs.

Hypermnestra
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Please look at the video so you can understand the unethical ways Monsanto uses GMOs.

I'm not saying I support Monsanto, far from it. But that's the company, not the crop.
Freakenstein
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Yeah, I was about to say, Hyper, I would've quoted ya. No, that was not sarcastic. The crop is wonderful, but the business is more corrupt than Steam setting up shop in the boonies. They keep and sell the seeds for themselves and will not allow farmers to keep the excess seeds to grow them over time. They require inspections just to make sure they don't have a couple lieing around. If they do, big trouble for the farmers that grow them.

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Is it just me, or does the fact that a company has patented life seem really creepy? Especially considering the law was passed by the Supreme Court.

Looking into a potential future with cloning, based on this couldn't a company patent animal DNA? Or even human DNA?

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Looking into a potential future with cloning, based on this couldn't a company patent animal DNA? Or even human DNA?

Human cloning right now is considered to be completly out of question but i could see MC Donalds patenting their fat cows.
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