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Originally Posted by golf4me
We recently met and talked at some length a young woman, daughter of a friend who was just finishing her doctorate in plant genetics. She was a very bright young woman and her education past her initial degree was focused on the process of genetically altering plants and testing them to see that they do produce better crops and she spent years in the labs and classrooms and the many farms that test and grow genetically altered crops. She is a scientist and one of the brightest and best and her work will help us and other countries produce better and more drought and pest resistant foods and probably tastier ones and more of them.
I think that many don't realize that changing the genetics of plants that we consume does not change our genetics or harm us in any way. Growing plants and cross pollinating plants to have higher yield and better flavor and more nutritious punch has been going on for years and years and years. To change the genetic qualities of seeds to make a plant produce more fruit or to make a tomato more delicious or with less seeds and impervious to tomato worms is a helpful process and one that will not harm the people who consume it.
I think that many who protest do not realize that changing the genetics of food products does no harm to the people who eat those plants and makes it better for all people.
It may be misunderstood or thought unethical much like artificial insemination but geneticists everywhere are finding clues to many processes to further our own lives and cure disease in people. They are also doing it in plants.
Because it is very complicated and involved does not make it dangerous to consume foods that have grown from seeds that were genetically altered.
I doubt if my post will change anyone's mind, because I am not on the level of this remarkable young woman who was educated at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Maybe we can ask one of their educators in molecular plant genetics to come to one of our garden groups to educate us about this process.
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No......GREAT POST. My husband just about said the same thing as you have.
It was those tumors on the test mice that got to me.......gross.
Still, a huge amount of protestors from all over.........I'll have to do some more reading on the subject...............
Thanks for posting.