In all fairness, there was one GMO that could have created an unimaginable disaster. The idea was to modify a common soil bacteria to make it more efficient, thus making land more fertile.
The trouble is that it worked too well, wiping out all the other soil bacteria, which are also essential for crops.
Fortunately, it was unintentionally contained, but still contained, in an open container of soil. Once they figured out what they had done, they incinerated everything that had come in contact with it, except the scientists themselves.
We're all one big happy anti-science gang!
Is Nye even a registered Engineer?
Bill Nye,the stooge brain guy.
He’s just another guy reading a script.
These GMO crops are foisted on the public with insufficient testing. IMHO the public is the test bed.
It is a shame that Mr Cruz is pandering to the pharmaceutical industry/lobby by supporting this experiment on humanity where there are no consequences for failure on the part of the company making billions off the patented seed.
Failure being the malformed/cancerous/disease prone result of introducing molecular arrangements with unknown effect to an unsuspecting populace eating 'food' that is 'good' for you (trust us).
It is a monstrous crime against humanity and I do not mean only the USA as this GMO experiment has been foisted on populations all around the world.
Much of the EU has banned it entirely (as if a rule could matter). For example birds eat seed and then fly and then poop... there is no way to control where the poop lands but if it hits dirt with sufficient water it will grow.
Kind of like an Ebola sneeze, which previously would not spread the infection until it did ... oops.
At least Bill Nye is willing to revise his opinion or position when confronted with evidence to the contrary. Ken Ham never changes his position on any meaningful element of his creation “science”.
It is truly amazing to me to see how little people understand about basic genetics and molecular biology.
Every food crop that exists has been genetically modified. People have used a number of methods throughout history to accomplish this.
A popular technique at the turn of the 20th century was to expose seeds to strong radiation, which causes significant damage to the DNA in the form of altered nucleotides (i.e. mutations) and double-strand DNA breaks (which can cause whole segments of DNA to disappear or to move to another part of the genome where it didn’t already exist). The seeds that randomly picked up desirable traits were bred and became the basis of many crops.
No one seems to mind the old random methods of genetic alteration of food crops. But when a single gene is targeted for alteration, inactivation, or insertion without changing a single nucleotide of the rest of the genome, then, all of a sudden, it’s “Frankenfood.”
Seriously, people, before getting all panicky about targeted genetic engineering, inform yourselves.
Old genetic engineering methods (going back thousands of years) were random and unpredictable, comparable to trying to take a sledgehammer to a marble statue and hoping to improve its aesthetic qualities. New genetic engineering methods, dating back to the 1970s, could be compared to taking a tiny chisel and tapping the statue gently to remove a nearly invisible flaw.
I’m not anti-GMO, but Monsanto and friends have used the court system and friendly legislators to run roughshod over individual farmers not using their product.
When I ran for office, I heard example after example of farmers being harassed for not using ‘product’ seed. The deep pockets can sue a ‘crop-to-crop ends meet’ family into submission, not because they’re right, but because they have might.
I oppose using the levers of government to beat up on the little guy.
The problem with pest resistant corn is that they are making the plant produce the pesticide which you ingest when you eat it. They also have made corn much less healthy as they chase the sugar portion. Watch Food, Inc. and Corn, Inc. They may be from a liberal funding, but the facts presented will change your thinking on GMO.
Sorry, Bill and Ted, I’ll pass on the Tomatoes with Flounder genes. Party on dudes.
Cruz is pro-GMO? Well, that does it, I’m not voting for him...