8 Signs GMO's Are Not Needed

Date: Nov 6, 2014

8 Signs GMO's Are Not Needed

Date: Nov 6, 2014

The linked-to article is funny, in that it just tried to show that organic can feed the world, while showing only extremely localized examples supporting their views. Nothing is mentioned about pricing, transportation, etc. etc. In other words, this article may have a good point, but ignores the practicalities of feeding 7 billion people.

I noticed in elections this week in America, that GMO-labeling proposals were defeated in several places. Personally, i think it might be good to at least label the products, so that you could avoid them if so inclined.

Date: Nov 7, 2014

Here is a list of problems with genetically engineered foods. There is more and none is good.

http://listverse.com/2013/06/22/10-problems-genetically-modified-foods-are-already-causing/

The roundup herbicide used to get the weeds, and many are resistant to it and so more is applied trying to kill them. Afield 700 yards from me is a good example, now the resistant weeds are so thick the farmer must wait till they are dead and dry to harvest and then the seeds of them are ripe and now his field is out of control plus even his beans this yr. are only half as tall as ought to have been. He has this field poisoned with the Roundup and to eat anything from it would be inviting trouble with your body..

http://www.gardenguides.com/107652-effects-roundup-food-crops.html

Also some plants now are GMO'ed to produce they're own insecticide which guess who eats in the end.

The food supply is in a very sad state to say the least, what to do, raise all you can of heirloom seeds and no pesticides, gather the bugs and raise organically, no commercial chemical fertilizers is best.

I do cover gardening, grass, leaves, wood chips with the green leaves bark and all ground up. I had fantastic strawberries this year and gallons and gallons of them from a small patch of about 10x25, myself and my three married children got several gallons and froze many up for winter.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Date: Nov 8, 2014

U.S.D.A. Approves Modified Potato

A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday (Nov 7, 2014).

The potato's DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing cancer in people, is produced when the potato is fried.

The new potato also resists bruising, a characteristic long sought by potato growers and processors for financial reasons. Potatoes bruised during harvesting, shipping or storage can lose value or become unusable.......

Simplot (the potato company that developed it) hopes the way the potato was engineered will also help assuage consumer fears. The company calls its product the Innate potato because it does not contain genes from other species like bacteria, as do many biotech crops.

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The whole article is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/business/genetically-modified-potato-from-simplot-approved-by-usda.html

Since all the genes are from potatos, I don't see anything wrong with this at all.

Does anyone have any opinions on this?

Date: Nov 12, 2014

It might be wise to see what else they may have done with the potato. I am one not to trust the genetic engineering done today on anything. I am one who eats very little of it as far as that goes as I've read that the tubers take up some of the blight and pesticide spray used on them.

It isn't a good food unless you use the skins and most don't. Same of the apple as far as that goes.

Since it is the high temperature frying that gives the problem I'll just refrain from that.

Date: Nov 24, 2014

when they tamper with the DNA that was put there by a Creator, how can splicing DNA and shooting mixed DNA into the gene strands have something better than what our Creator gave us?

... changing the gene sequencing code can turn on operons that were not supposed to be turned on or messing with the sequence can give us other proteins and substances not in the original...

we are already so limited in our food that this is one more that I will have to grow myself or buy organic

Date: Nov 26, 2014

That is interesting to think about changing the gene sequencing might turn on or off things that would be harmful to the body. That may very well be true.

However, I see nowhere in inspired writings where this is wrong. Now of course, it is wrong to mix kinds, as Leviticus 19:19 says: "Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee."

For the purpose of this discussion, let's ignore the point that SDAs officially don't keep the Statutes anyway (but i think they should).

When using all potato genes tho, isn't what they are doing basically what selective breeders and grafters do to improve some aspect of a particular plant or animal?

Besides, how do we know for sure, but perhaps this new potato is closer to the original potato God created in the first place, before 6,000 years of sin had degenerated the genes?

Date: Feb 14, 2015

Saw this morning where apples have now been modified to not brown so easily after slicing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/business/gmo-apples-are-approved-for-growing-in-us.html

The nonbrowning effect is not created by putting genes from another species into the apple's DNA, which is the case with most genetically altered crops. Instead, the apple's own genes are manipulated in a way that turns off the browning mechanism.

Sounds OK to me.

What do you think?