Allow me to begin my post with this:
I want to eat genetically modified food products.
Science, for your average human being is something akin to sorcery. There's some guy, he's not exactly public and is probably a wizard. Not a lot of people saw him, and its unknown, is he counting the stars through some brass pipe or poisoning your cattle. People see his maid all the time: She comes to the towm market to buy some food. Maid is nice, beatiful, chatty, proud of her master, but cant exactly tell aything, because she's afraid of going into his room. She saw fire and smoke, tho. From stuff the sorceror tells her when one of the experiments finally suceeded she cant understand a word. Such were medieval times, so it is in modern times. Only instead of a chatty maid we got a chatty journalist.
People will believe until the end that acient medicine heals better than modern, plastic window frames poison the room air, any substance in form of a pill already harms you because its a pill, and there's always a goddamned special table to calculate the favourable day for impregnation.
What fucking progress? Get the fuck out cience, and take your stupid fruits away. We dont fucking need them, so out! Just leave mobile phones. And antiradars. And some cleaning compound for kitchenware because soap isnt working. And the sticker for the mobile phones to protect me from harmful radiation.
But yeah, Im getting drawn out here, so lets get back to GMF...
And here we are, brilliant year 1996. Journalists are screaming about approaching end of the world - 2000, but in the food industry we see a much smaller crisis brooding...
First GMF products hit the markets. Sure there were precendents before, but nobody knew what GMF means so nobody gave a shit.
The conflict, was first introduced by Monsanto Company competitors: Bayer AG, Bash, Singente, etc. Why? It's pretty goddamned simple:
Monsanto became a too dangerous competitor. They already were smacking everyone on their tomatoes, pardon the pun, by selling their "Roundup ready" herbicide, and by then introducing the cultures immune to these herbicides, they began a massive shitstorm: Instead of buying old fashioned wheat nobody gives a shit about, treating it with herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, lead homocides, they can now just plant a GM-wheat with added genes to resist the sickness, parasites and such, and then pour the Roundup over it, killing all the weed dead. Wheat doesnt gives a shit, It's GM and cant be poisoned by glyphosate since it inhibites the ferment which doesnt do anything in the GM-wheat metabolism, unlike the rest of cultures, not-GM, which, you know, die.
Well, actually, wheat is a bad example - they stopped growing it that way. Corn, soy, cotton and napus are grown exactly this way. And they arent the only ones.
Right, so, since none of Monsanta competition did it massively, and GMF planet-march had to be stopped, they took the easy route:
Fling poo at Monsanto and GM-products by lobbying the laws about prohibiting them in the food products. Result didnt made them waiting for too long: Retards of all world are terrified of GMF and are shitting massive bricks, enough to rebuild washington just when they hear a mention of transgenome products. Any discussion of transgene products always come to one thing:
GM IS DANGERS BUT HOW MUHC IS IT DANGEROUS"?!?!?!?!1!?!?1?1!
The real problem here? Journalists. They know about GM just as much as a wild pig know about genemodded oranges. Their usual habit of making a big steamy elephant turd where there's only a single poodle kaka, throwing hyperboles around, coupled with mental SCIENTISTS and other "experts" which they interview, turns any article into a drug-induced shitstorm about GM IS DANGERS WER GETIN TAILS AN DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So hey, lets think for a moment, what is your average american thinks of when he reads, or hears about "X with gene from Y"?
A chimera - some creature which shares appearance of X and Y. (Holywood helped a lot on this one, thankfully before all the shitstorms, or I'd write another paragraph discussing the possibility of economical conspiracy.) Actually, what really the thing is, it's just goddamned X with genes from Y helping it produce a protein making it resistant to heat, or something.
As a result, we have articles telling us that we "cannot digest modified genes" Im quoting a real one here, actually.
So in the article-induced nightmares about growing random tentacles and pinuses on your face after eating your daily bread, nobody, for some goddamn reason remembers theirt biology classes from fourth grade.
Yes, sure there are some people telling about transposon genes, but for some reason, even they forget their classes. Which is weird, since they still remember this word, for some reason. So, whats a transposon? Basically, its a wild sequence that moves around, and sometimes randomly inserts itself and causes mutation. For some reason, they ignore the fact that:
1: Transposon really happen. In single-cellular organism. Yeah. No, they dont happen anywhere but single-cellular organism. No, humans are not made of a single cell. If you manage to get one in yourself, go get a nobel prize.Tho I dont think the comitet can award a single-cell.
2: In any food, there are shittons of genes. Please, tell me, why exactly is the modified gene is going to "insert itself into you", and not the rest of normal, unmodified ones. Not like it can happen, because goddamned #1. Oh, wait, did I mention they arent transposon?
3: EVEN if it somehow manages to insert itself(Please see #1 and #2 to find out why the capsed even.(Anti-GM people, no need, single-cellular organism seem to be exactly your case.)) into your genome, it wont exactly do a shit. Inserting a couple of words from McDonalds ads into War and Peace wont exactly do anything to enchance or degenerate it. In fact, it will simply trigger your body defensive mechanism and the modified cell quickly becomes an hero.
Another experiment, which anti-GMO people are quick to quote, is the british experiment about how they fed lab mice ONLY with GM-soy for few months and then found signs of reproduction mechanisms failing and fur falling out. Believe me, if you were fed exclusively with soy for few month not only your pinus would fall off, but the rest of your organs would cancel out as well, regardless of GM in the food.
A pretty hilarious thing, is that Greenpeace, yes, these guys, are extremely anti-GM. They say it hurts mother nature and cancels out normal crops. The fact that genemodded cultures(And creatures) are completely sterile and cannot reproduce is ignored for some reason.
So here ends my short(Oh wow, did I just fucking write all this?) excure into history and reasons. Let's do a quick roundup:
PRO- No pesticides
- More fat/less fat, changeable when needed.
- Faster growing and metabolism.
- Chance to test positive mutations on crops and animals.
- Appearance of safe narcotics. (Yes, I did fucking just say that. Those are only for medical applications, of course)
- Better harvests, which, in fact, could actually solve hunger. Like in africa.
- Cheaper.
- Easier to grow, less maitenance, less susceptible to shit like heat.
ANTI- It's against the nature
- IT WILL KILL US
- WE LL GROW TENTACLES
- Plants are god creations and you shall not interfere with them
- ALL plants will lose ability to reproduce! IM A SCIENTIST
Okay, I have around this post worth of text more to actually write, but this took me a good portion of the hour to word out, so I think i'll stop here.