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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Oct 23, 2016 12:16:59 GMT -5
www.fungi.net/blog/crispr-gene-editI spotted this today. I did not know they had GMO button mushrooms now. I wonder how prevalent they are in the market or if they are just newly invented. Paul raises a warning voice that while these new button mushrooms do not brown and may last longer in your fridge that the same pathway is responsible for novel antiviral compounds, which may take away some of the benefit of mushroom nutrition to humans, but also may have an effect of new viruses being unchecked in nature should this strain be spread to the wild.
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Post by prairiegarden on Oct 23, 2016 16:36:22 GMT -5
They are truly trying to replace the natural world. It's beginning to get really scary. Amazing how we are apparently really trying to wipe ourselves out as a species. GMO trees and insects and now fungi.
I grew up in the times that "how to build your own fallout shelter" was featured in things like Popular Mechanics magazines and it was fairly well accepted that nuclear war was only a matter of time. It's beginning to feel like those were serene and idyllic times compared to the issues we are leaving for the next generations to deal with. The thing that's so sad is that these things are all being done deliberately.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Oct 23, 2016 19:30:46 GMT -5
I say this slightly in jest, but perhaps it's not all doom and gloom after all. To the future GMO-Humans they will feel right at home with built-in genetics that allow them to survive in highly toxic environments and the ability to eat as much Mercury ridden fish that they want.
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Post by prairiegarden on Nov 15, 2016 20:59:41 GMT -5
A short life but a merry one I assume. Perhaps the idea that fish are now so toxic to eat in any quantity will lead to less overfishing? Would be nice to think of some upside.
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Post by steev on Dec 3, 2016 1:50:43 GMT -5
Having grown up when bomb-shelters were upscale, I think the organic farm is today's "bomb-shelter"; not to protect you from a blast-wave, but from cancer. My mother's side, being agricultural during the forties, eventually developed high rates of cancer; my father's side, being urban, didn't. Was this due to industrial chemicals developed early in the forties? Are these chemicals throughout our food supply, the products of Big Ag, today? I think so.
Although it is also possible that my father's side was just more resilient, being a much less narrow gene-pool; Ma's folks were all Germans from southern Ukraine (largely out of Wertemburg, Swabia, while Pop's were from all over western Europe, though largely Scots. I credit my own generally vigorous health to my land-race genetics; I'm a dog, not an Alsatian (hip-dysplasia) nor a Scotty (crappy hind-quarters), just a healthy mutt.
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Post by prairiegardens on Dec 3, 2016 3:48:00 GMT -5
Those chemicals and others even more toxic are indeed in not only food but virtually everything, soaps, toothpaste, lotions etc. and in our environment...flame retardant clothes, formaldehyde releasing insulation, toxic carpets. And of course virtually all processed foods. Was listening tonight to a series of interviews with researchers and one thing one mentioned was that CHILDREN in Mexico City already have the plaque which is a signal of Alzheimer's, they think as a result of the air quality ( or rather, lack thereof). Babies everywhere are born with a bunch of chemicals present in the cord blood, and they get more from mothers milk. Otoh, formula has apparently got aluminum in it, a known toxin for the brain, so babies these days are pretty much screwed anyway.
Remind me again, what is the role of the FDA?
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Post by steev on Dec 4, 2016 1:17:59 GMT -5
I think the FDA is doing pretty much what it can with the starvation budget it has been given, thanks to one of our lame-stream political parties (which shall here remain nameless, in the interest of being non-political) and the limp opposition of the other party.
Wow! I'm proud of myself for being strong enough to repress the impulse to go off on the Congressional prostitutes/sphincters who are putting corporate profits before the interests of their constituents, humanity, and, indeed, the ecosystem. What a deal: stay in Congress; kiss corporate ass to do so; destroy the life-support system. To quote a famous loon: "sad".
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