Quote Originally Posted by Laurens View Post
I'm glad to hear the GM debate is evolving. Back when I was a (smaller) kid, people would just be frightened by genetic modification and think it was dangerous to everything and everyone and somehow scientists were plotting to destroy humanity or something. Now, people point out that genetically modified organisms do not belong in nature, as they will compete with wild type organisms and containing their growth to the last single organism is virtually impossible.

What most people don't know, is that the "wild types" I just refered to are also heavily manipulated by industries. The thing is, if you expose a bag of seeds to a big dose of UV light, sigarette smoke, electrons or radiation, 99.9% will die and 0.01% may grow just a little better than the original seeds. Only, you don't have to tell your customers what you did with the seeds. And the main drawback is that you don't know what other new properties have been created, which you do know with directed genetic modification.

Either way, it's an interesting topic! Who knows, perhaps in 10 or 20 years all crops have been genetically modified. Who knows when people start genetically enhancing themselves...


Can you link me to the cyclists thread? I'm not much of a cyclist and my bike is not much of a bike, I simply enjoy it better than the bus, it saves me a little time and I like to get a little excercise, as working in the lab is mostly sitting on my ass stretching my brains and typing things on a certain shaving forum.
Sorry laurens, I have no idea how to link threads. It is in the finer things in life, subforum exercise or fitness or something. I am in no way a bike snob, and at the moment I am a pretty poor cyclist but I want to get fitter and cycle more.