Agricultural Transgenics: Science vs. Conspiracy, pt. 1- KazukiSeirei

The video I'm responding to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZqchjjS8Q&

My namesake on YouTube, "EvoGen," is short for "Evolution and Genetics." DNA and the role it plays in both the overall body and in the cell interest me, to the point that it's actually what I ultimately would like to end up focusing on with my career. Usually, I talk about aspects of evolution, and defend it from creatards who are either misinformed, or lie about it outright. However, "Evo" is only one part of my screenname. This is a sort of an attempt to get closer to the "Gen" part of it.

Genomics has the power to give us treatments, cures, and an understanding of the causes for various ailments that have plagued us as a species for centuries up until this point. Genomics, especially medical transgenics, is how I want to leave my mark on the world, I want it to be my way of leaving the world a better place than the way I found it.

Transgenics can also be applied to agriculture, as a means of bettering the lives of the consumer, but the producer as well. It's not only a means of bettering life in the first world nations, but especially the third world nations as well. It can cut back on all of the costs, the resources, the risks, and dangerous pollutants that often come from the farming process, and ultimately, it can save lives.

However, I have absolutely no respect for alarmist trash, or organizations, that would seek to take away the benefits of transgenics from those who need it most, and criticize it from an ivory tower, where food and farming are NOT a matter of life and death, and use lies and fallacies to impede the work of those trying to do and capable of doing the most good: the hard working scientists and students at the Universities and Biotechnology companies seeking to make a positive difference.

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[adolthitler]

The only GMO danger is inserting proteins from allergens into other foods, then allergy sufferers will die. I don't know how they can protect against that.

[EvoGenVideos]

@adolthitler That's actually complete crap. They still have to be labelled if they do, but taking the genes from one thing and inserting it into another, given the successive breeding that's done prior to approval, by the time a transgenic organism is ready for market, any contact it had with the allergens is gone. Otherwise, that one gene isn't going to cause an allergic reaction.

[adolthitler]

@EvoGenVideos Maybe I was unclear in how I initially described what I meant. But the gene from a peanut inserted into another plant to confer some benefit, would leave an allergic person at risk.

[EvoGenVideos]

@adolthitler And you apparently didn't understand what I said back. The gene from a peanut doesn't produce the peanut itself, but a protein. Allergic reactions are the product of certain antigens reacting to certain chemicals, which scientists know exactly what they are. Unless the aim was to produce these allergen chemicals, as opposed to another protein, which is unlikely, then no, it wouldn't put anyone at risk.

[theracemixer]

First of all there is nothing wrong with organic.

A) The use verity species can mitigate viral/ fungicidal issue this is also true for environmental problem such as flood/drought .

B) Growing crops without the use of chemical fertilizer will yield the same amount of crops.

[Supralobe]

I love how there are flat earth luddites saying no gmos and flat earth luddites saying no global warming and they're acting like they don't have everything in common with each other.

[wearestarstuffsagan]

genetics is awesome, dont know whether to try to go into genetics or herpotology

[kirafan68]

@traog : there are a lot of dumb people over here, too!

[HConstantine]

@EvoGenVideos There's a warner brothers cartoon about an elephant that stood about 6 inches at the shoulder. Whoever can engineer that for a pet will make a fortune.

[traog]

@EvoGenVideos That's too bad, Mad Cow and GMO have little in common.

While cation should be used, IMO, GMOs are far safer than dumping huge quantities of chemicals into the environment to produce food.