re: #446 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

What is with the idea that GMOs are poison?

There is a lot wrong with them, such as the unintended consequences of co-evolutionary changes in weeds, but the proteins formed by adding genes are pretty obvious.

Short version, from someone who is a farmer who refuses to plant GMO just because I despise Monsanto because of their business practices of polluting the environment and paying miniscule fines was cheaper than fixing the problem (personal experience where my family lived across the street from a Monsanto plant in a small village that is more than 200 years old, so the village was there first, and the elementary school was condemned as a result of high toxic levels directly related to Monsanto’s kiss-my-ass emissions)…

The problem with GMO crops is gene splicing, using genetic material completely unrelated to the actual plant. GMO crops are in no way analogous to hybridization, which farmers are been doing for thousands of years to improve crops.
People are quite rightly concerned about GMO practices because of the “just trust us” aspect when, from all appearances, it just doesn’t sound right.