State Your Unpopular Opinions

Dairy cows are not natural. They have been selectively bred by humans for melennia.

Dairy products are GMOs.

 

Yeah, I think bulldogs are just the cutest, but their health issues are appalling. It's heartbreaking

 

I think there are two debates, one about GMO in theory and the other about the practices of the companies carrying it out, and those two debates get mixed up in a way that is unhelpful.

Profit-hungry corporations should not be in charge of it and the exploitation you mention is obviously disgusting.

 

I don't think thats the kind of genetical modification we were talking about. Btw: although it also counts for dairy/milk sheep and goats, i just wanna clarify im not involved in cow dairy.

 

So that explains the sheep avatar...

 

There’s a big difference between selective breeding, and splicing DNA between two separate species.

 

That's a milk sheep indeed. Longer paws. Bigger udder. But through centuries of selective breeding, not by altering their genetical structure in a laborarory. The milk sheep (and cow) is already centuries old btw. It's not a recent invention like genetical modification by modern lab technology

 

Agreed (obviously)

 

A lot of people mind. It is getting acknowledged and in my country they're actively trying to stop the malpractices. My german shepherd died too soon because of this shit too

 

Ironically, the kid in that meme probably only has food because of GMOs

 

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey

(but the hat may come from its own wool )

That doesn't make it abundantly clear GM food is a good development for nature or people in general. And how did the food being genetically modified save him?

 

No farmer should ever have to wear a hazmat suit

 

Go your country! Well that's good to hear.


I don't think I understand enough about this to have formed an opinion. I've heard of "golden rice" before with higher vitamin A... Isn't that a good thing, shaman? Aside from the corruption.

The Wikipedia article mentions using it to help trees that are threatened by a disease. Do you think this is also dangerous or is it just about food?

 

Um...feeding him

 

Yes there is.

There is also a big difference between hockey and tennis. But they're both still sports, much like selective breeding and splicing DNA are both GMOs.

 

You're avoiding the point. Unmodified food couldn't feed them?

 

I think we all understand the issue lies with directly altering it by technological modification in a lab and not with the slower and pretty much natural process of selective breeding.

 

That you think this is a caricature makes me laugh. This is me deal with it or go the fuck away

 

No. They don't yeild as many crops and are less resilient to disease and drought.

 

I don't think there is ANY issue. That's where we disgaree.

Us first world folks shouldn't try and condemn the practices that feed those less fortunate than us. That's my stance. Hey, if poor people in Africa and Asia could waltz into Trader Joe's and bitch about organic this and that, I'd say that GMOs aren't necessary. But that's not reality.

Reality is, people in third world nations have food because of GMOs. Who am I to complain about that?