So at my work I see this thing called a grapple(pronounced gray-pul) that is a combination of a grape and an apple and the plants that these fruit were grown on were apparently genetically engineered to be this way. For the most part I don't have a problem with genetic engineering when it comes to my food, a chicken that's more resistant to salmonella is a good thing, but randomly combining plant DNA is just kinad odd, what do you think, about any of the genetic modification of our food, from plants to animals?

I Have to say go the Gra-Pul Genitic engineering is the way of the future and for the most part is just tofuther improve our crops and in some cases give them higher yeilds. A prime example of this is splicing a gene from one plant ( the name escapes me now) and putting it into your common all garden tomato with this new gene tomatos are able to be picked later (being picked when the are at their ripest) and be transported longer distances so i think that genetic engerneering is the way to the future which is strange because my last name is green

Well i don't really mind if they taste nice and is healthy after they genetically modify the dna. Only if they add hormones to chickens and stuff. I don't want that! But what i would like is for them to genetically change plants. It'll be a cool site to see! especially if the made a red rose into a blue one. Maybe even put an exibit of a giant Venus Fly Trap. haha but i guess it'll have to be behind windows or something in case they eat humans!

I think that in plants genetic engineering isn't all too wacky. After all, it is to benifit people. If we can find a way to make plants healthier and more resistant to disease and the spread of disease, I think it's pretty cool.

As far as animal engineering goes, however, I'm not really sure. I don't eat too much meat to begin with, though I'm not a vegiterian, but I still don't really know where I would stand on it all. I suppose it would come down to circumstance and how and with what of the meat is being altered.

Ha-ha! I was going to make a thread similar to this last night.

I love gen-engineered food and think it is a boon for increasing food production and quantity per surface area of arable land. While at Super Wal-Mart yesterday, I picked up some green seedless grapes on-the-vine that were each nearly as big as ping-pong balls. Incredible. They were juicy and far more tasty than the standard fare of organics.

As for meat, I have no issues with hormone injected or gen-altered animals. Again, look at production capability and maximizing output. I think claims that hormones in meat are unhealthy for the consumer are dubious at best.

On an interesting note, my mom worked in the lab for one of the farms that produce turkeys for mass consumption. These turkeys can weigh up to 90 lbs! The breast section of one of them is as big as the standard turkey you would buy for Thanksgiving.

I don't think the GMO is good for Human because we still don't know the long time what will happen to us.

Well, we have been eating genetic eng. for a long time now. You might of not noticed it, but the fruits and vegetables that you eat are most likely genetically engineered to repel insects. Also, some fruits or vegetables are genetically engineered to taste better, look better , to grow bigger or to grow in more harsher climates...but I remind you to say that most are like this...but not all.

I agree on that. They're also easier to plant also.

But you won't see modified food in our country. My uncle sent me a box of apples and a bunch of fruits for the US. After i opened the box I was shocked to see an apple bigger 3x bigger than your wrist.

So for the most part everyone agrees(for the most part) that genetic engineering is a decent thing, though there does seem to be a stigma towards engineering animals, any Idea why that is? I mean if I can get a cow or a chicken that is genetically engineered to produce more decent meat while having a significantly lower food necessity, not only would that make the keeping of such animals cheaper and easier, thus reducing the cost, but seeing that esp. in america, one of the highest groups of people who inefficiently use(and therefore waste) water are farmers for their crops and fields for their cattle, Is there a stigma around whether or not it's okay to play god with these animal's evolution? or is it more that people think if we start genetically engineering animals for food, we'er just one step away from genetically engineering humans? or perhaps something else entirely...

mean if I can get a cow or a chicken that is genetically engineered to produce more decent meat

For me i don't really mind plant or animal as long as they provide a better yeild and offer no immediate health defects. I mean, look at the chickens at KFC/Popeyes/Kenny Rogers. Now i'm not a farmer, nor do i spend time around the chicken farms but since when did those chickens get to be that big? The next time you go, assemble a...well almost a whole chicken... with 2 thighs, 2 legs, 2 breast pieces since they're halves, and 2 wings....what you'll end up with is a massive bird thats bigger than a cat. From 4-H farm fairs and the chickens that roam around my neighbor's yards, the only chickens that compare to that are the fighting roosters 0_0' I don't think there are enough fighting roosters to fuel a food chain industry so i mean, if we've been eating there for years whats the harm in continuing to consume them? Deep-fried & bad cholesterol set aside since the cause is from the way they prepare the chickens and not as if scientitsts are injecting the chickens with the Kernel's twelve spice recipe.

I thinks its a little odd to be playing with such things but maybe that may very well be the future of humankind, making stroger, more nutritive and resiliant food, is something that we may need in the future (or that we already need).

>_< when a read the title I tought this subject was about a kind of Super Soldier Engenierd Fruit ^^ jejeje XD

theironwarrior

I picked up some green seedless grapes on-the-vine that were each nearly as big as ping-pong balls. Incredible. They were juicy and far more tasty than the standard fare of organics.

Where do you live? Everything I get from the grocery store is total crap. Apples are crap. lettuce is crap. Strawberries are so bad it's not even funny. My problem with the genetic engineering is that they make produce which looks good and takes like nothing - the red delicious apple is the perfect example. In some instances it can indeed produce a superior product. I had an aunt that grew some sort of super secret corn that she wouldn't even tell us what in the hell it was - tasted awesome though. That never seems to be what happens at the grocery store though.

What most people don't understand about genetic engineering is that it is often a trade off of 3 options. You can try to grow something with an extremely low yield. You can grow something genetically engineered. Or you can dump a bunch of fertilizers and pesticides on it.

Woohoo! lets play god! Grapes! Apples! Grapples!

Chicken! Cow! Chickow!

seriously, this is so fucking wrong. Everyday we genetically alter our foods, we make them bigger look better, and of course, something that big looses quality.

My grandpa who is an old eastern European farmer, grows all his vegetables and fruits himself, he even has grape vines stretched all around the house, on sorta like a metallic skeleton where they grow. Genetically engineered grapes that are bigger and look better taste like crap compared to his. His are smaller and the sweetness doesn't spread out and gets diffused, his grapes aren't grown on some high tech uberfarm, they are literally growing in his backyard, without it being genetically altered (the only thing he does do is spray a little pesticide on them to keep the bugs away)

...People...genetically altering your food isn't NATURAL, hell i sorta expected the world to turn artificial but theres one thing that i really hoped to not change, and that is genetically altering our food. I personally believe that we are playing god, i also believe that we should try to preserve our food that grows naturally, not fuck its brains out with crossing it with some other kind of species. Instead of actually trying to make the world a better place, we just make it more comfortable for us, ( big cities, destroying forests<---you know where this is going)

i think we should try to preserve the forests and fields where we grow our food, not just plow over them and create veggies in some laboratory...

...sorry folks i just don't like the idea of having so many changes to something as simple as an apple or a grape, i just find it wrong...and seriously, a fruit still doesn't make it less of a living being, im sure some of you are thinking right now that a tree is worth less then a cow, but you're wrong, plants and animals have the same value in life, and in general a tree is actually more useful than a cow, not necessarily to us, but a tree is more useful than a cow, that doesn't mean its worth more then a cow...this is going in circles,

hell i'm not even really religious and i just feel this is wrong.

Is there a stigma around whether or not it's okay to play god with these animal's evolution? or is it more that people think if we start genetically engineering animals for food, we're just one step away from genetically engineering humans? or perhaps something else entirely...

ehe...watching too much gundam seed ^^

Chicken! Cow! Chickow!

made me laugh XD

Anyways, Im also not very keen with genetical engineering, especially with animals...they should put their efforts and genius minds instead, on how to patch up the ozone layer, cure on diseases, how to compact garbage, etc...
genetically altering something isn't even practical heck our food tastes just fine, and if you want to have all the nutritional attribute in one fruit, drink vitamin tablets, it's just the same. ^^

@ Spentzar

I think you had too much of the genetically altered stuff xD Hahaha
If you would see what the natural stuff looks like, ( even the good looking ones) you’d probably be screaming out how global warming is destroying our plant life.

What do you think is worse, people adding toxic chemicals to make them big juicy and shiny (trust me everybody does it nowadays) or people just altering the structure for the same purpose but in a healthier context.

In the end you eat something, it's destroyed into it's basic components, which then travel thru the blood to the cells in your body. What do you think is going to happen, you eat something and it's going to somehow in your stomach grow into a Chikow xD lol

@ ipsofacto
Plant DNA??
Wasn’t it called something totally different then DNA. Isn't DNA animal specific plants having a somewhat different substocture.