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GMO anyone?
by debJC 9y ago
GMO anyone?
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- jefft255 9y agoI thought GMOs were illegal in the EU, of which France is a part of
- sp332 9y agoI didn't know that. And it's not all of Europe but France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece, and Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_Europe#Adoption_of_GMO_crops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_Europe#...
- drb91 9y agoSomehow I don’t see domesticated plants killing off insects. Monocultures, maybe. Why not pesticides?
- John_KZ 9y agoWhat do you mean by domesticated? It's very vague. The original comment looks shallow at first, but GMOs often contain pesticides inside the seed/grain because the companies designing them don't know how to control it. That could potentially harm birds in the long run, and definitely harms insects.
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- skosch 9y agoPesticides, rather.
- nosuchthing 9y agoThe purpose of many GMO plants is to be more resilient against pesticides. The GMO plant itself isn't what kills the insects which than poison the birds.. it's the poison that's sprayed on the plants.
- glibgil 9y ago> The GMO plant itself isn't what kills the insects https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef130 https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef130
- nosuchthing 9y agoWow interesting, thank you. Bt Delta Endotoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipopolysaccharide#Health_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipopolysaccharide#Health_effe... an interesting side note, endotoxin test have relied on availability of horseshoe crab blood: The standard assay for detecting presence of endotoxin is the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) assay, utilizing blood from the Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).[44] Very low levels of LPS can cause coagulation of the limulus lysate due to a powerful amplification through an enzymatic cascade. However, due to the dwindling population of horseshoe crabs, and the fact that there are factors that interfere with the LAL assay, efforts have been made to develop alternative assays, with the most promising ones being ELISA tests using a recombinant version of a protein in the LAL assay, Factor C.[
- ShorsHammer 9y agoThe incentives for GMO research are perverse, there's so much potential yet like most new tech it's been co-opted for evil. Most of the money is going into how to sell more pesticide rather than making the plants more resilient. GMO could eliminate pesticides altogether and that would make Monsanto and friends very unhappy.
- JetSetWilly 9y agoGMO is illegal in france. If anything it is the lack of GMO causing the problem. No GMO crops means you must use incesticides in large quantities, with GMO crops you don’t need to use incesticides and therefore insects and the environment are less effected. A good way fir France to tackle this problem would be to allow GMO crops. Alas, hysteria and superstition are against sensible solutions.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y agoUsing GMO crops doesn't mean you don't need pesticides. The crops are engineered to withstand the pesticide, but you still have to use pesticide to protect the plants.
- JetSetWilly 9y agoIf you're using Bt GMO crops, you need to use way less incesticide. There's lots of sources on this, eg: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2190-4715-24-24 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2190-4715-24-24