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Just saw a news report. There is some GMO salmon that is supposed to grow bigger, faster. They are supposedly bred to be sterile... But still. I'm not sure I'd trust it. Plus should a genetic abnormality happen and these salmon are no longer sterile, and if they get out into the wild - I could see it SERIOUSLY upsetting the natural flow - think like the jellyfish problems going on in Japan.

I think there are some things that just shouldn't be messed with. Tweaking plants and now animals to grow faster, more resilient, etc is just a ticking time bomb IMO.

What are your thoughts?

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agreed, i mean it's just like artificial sweeteners and then finding out they're terrible for you

edit: thought i was gonna be the first post, got ninja'd

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sounds a lot like the movie mimic to me. mess with nature... nature mess with you! people need to let stuff be. 99.9% of all living things have gone extinct anyway. im all for protecting animals and living things, im not cool with keeping things around longer than nature intended.

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sounds a lot like the movie mimic to me. mess with nature... nature mess with you! people need to let stuff be. 99.9% of all living things have gone extinct anyway. im all for protecting animals and living things, im not cool with keeping things around longer than nature intended.

Yup. There are already issues with the stupid Monsanto crops getting out of the farm and growing like weeds. Can't kill the stupid things because they were designed to withstand it!

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Also, if Monsanto catches any of their genetic material in a non-approved farmers crop, they will sue them.

GMOs are scary. I've been wanting to get away from them for a while, but never got around to it. I do have a friend that is GMO-free though.

A couple of Coast to Coast AM episodes related to it (GMOs in general)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzHSM6ecqzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6G6wqTwsy8

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I'd definitely be less inclined to eat salmon if I knew it had been genetically modified. Besides, isn't cancer basically genetically modified cells? Not that it's really a good comparison, but...

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I'd definitely be less inclined to eat salmon if I knew it had been genetically modified. Besides, isn't cancer basically genetically modified cells? Not that it's really a good comparison, but...

Almost all food is genetically modified now. Or it's pumped full of hormones and chemicals.

"Genetically modified" and "mutation/cross-pollination" are separate things, IIRC. "Genetically modified" is deliberately laboratory tampering with the genetic structure, like adding spider DNA to a potato. Whereas a mutation is natural.

IDK if I explaned that right.

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I'd definitely be less inclined to eat salmon if I knew it had been genetically modified. Besides, isn't cancer basically genetically modified cells? Not that it's really a good comparison, but...

Almost all food is genetically modified now. Or it's pumped full of hormones and chemicals.

"Genetically modified" and "mutation/cross-pollination" are separate things, IIRC. "Genetically modified" is deliberately laboratory tampering with the genetic structure, like adding spider DNA to a potato. Whereas a mutation is natural.

IDK if I explaned that right.

You're right, cancer is a MUTATION, not a modified cell

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