nah i was trolling when i said i'd strap them on the table personally :P

Since i support mandatory vaccines, i do technically wanna force vaccinate people against their will

but its been 30 minutes since you said you had to go, shouldn't we shelve this discussion for another time? 😦

okay... welll..... we have a physical removal plan for ppl who refuse to abide by the new NAP social contract 😉 i guess youre safe since youre on the other side of the planet tho lol

until the terrorists get me 😦

EU loves inviting them over

alrighty, dude. well gg heh

yeah, good talk 😉 take care

#walkaway is fake. Change my mind.

Beucase Trump is president?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, heres a discussion I had before. Theres the new strain of rice, that can grow anywhere.

Even in salt water, should solve food supply shortages in areas closer to the coastal areas.

So my family has always been part of the anti GMO group.

So they are saying that this is bad news.

The only answers I am getting is stuff like "its unnatural" or that its "healthier" than the organic options.

Has it been tested/grown?

Supposedly.

But its been decades since GMOs are around, and I still dont think I got a straight answer as to its health effects.

And it felt like the anti gmo crowd were the first to cry foul of it.

That just speaks uninformed to me.

I think being uninform is okay, but the willingness to listen and accept the 'truth' is more important

I mean, its a dirty word as of now, but how much of that is from fearmongers, concerned citizens, or from actual results.

We've been genetically modifying our food for as long as we've been growing it. Doing it through artificial selection vs more modern means isn't what matters

It's the end result that does

They say its different

And that splicing is bad because its manmade and unnatural.

There's nothing really to argue against there.

Lots of stuff is unnatural. Doesn't mean it's bad.

Now, the legal practices behind GMOs are something to complain about

Isn't curare natural?

Thats my only issue with it

Mosanto's treatment of farmers does not help with the GMO situation

There's also the possibility of weaponizing GMO bacteria/parasites

I wouldn't go so far as saying that we GMO our food since we've been growing it, rather we selectively breed most of them

All that matters is that the food should go to the people who will need it most. Prompt help will be more useful than delayed help.

But the problem with GMO is that we are not sure of it's long term effects to the ecology and to the human body

SO heres the thing.

I think that's reasons for most people to distrust GMO

THe people who are starving now. Which will help them live longer.

Some food? Or something that keeps them alive longer but will kill them assuming GMOs do that.

Its counting on the GMOs keeping them alive long enough for a better alternative to come along.