How do you feel about GMO foods or more on labeling the packages!
This is one tek that im fully against.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/29/us-usa-gmo-vote-idUSKBN0II1KM20141029
Theirs no way that we can improve on what mother nature has perfected for millions of years!
Our Tek should be more focused on growing more diversity and amending, remineralizing the soil that we use for farming! As well focused on effects of certain plants and their healing abilities.
In my country no one cares about GMOs or not. Everyone only cares to have their stomach filled and have enough money to live. I live in Singapore btw.
So you should let these companies take advantage of your desperate people?
Not really, the government despite being greedy, still regulates GMOs properly. If the said GMOs is verified to be safe, then they are able to enter the country and be purchased freely. I have never heard of anyone fell ill due to allergic reactions related to GMOs here.
GMOs are the unavoidable future, and for one very specific reason; space travel. NASA has already shown that plants can grow in space, but it has also found that most plants, and allot of our food crops, don't like growing in micro gravity environments. Genetic modifications will almost certainly be the solution here, as they should be able to alter the gravity orientation/growth direction gene in such a way to allow them to grow well in space.
The other issue with space travel and plants is colonizing new other planets. Mars for instance will probably need GMO plants in order for colonists to even get their food/O2 gardens up and running on the nutrient poor martian soil. Gravity probably wont be an issue, since the problem seems to be whether or not there is enough gravity for the plant to sense what direction to grow in, and mars' 1/3 G of gravity will probably cause the plants to grow larger than normal as a result of less stress from weight.
As far as plants on earth go, the GMOs are already here, and as many unfortunate farmers have discovered, they are showing up on non GMO farms and in the wild from cross pollination. Would I have allowed GMO's to exist if I had had any say in the matter? Depending on the desired modification, yes. Crops locked down by a single corporation for the sole purpose of profit? No. Crops Engineered to grow in wastelands where people have the misfortune of being forced to live? Absolutely yes, so long as the modification only makes the plant grow well in that environment and/or is more nutritious, and adds nothing else.
I don't think GMOs are ready yet. Even if it was, I don't think GMOs are used for the benefit of the people today. We would think GMOs would increase our food's nutrient content but it is actually lower than what it was in the past. I believe that the GMO companies have been compromised by the pharmaceutical industry to grow plants with lower nutrient density so that people would have to supplement. Also, we are messing around with animals by genetically making them grow bigger than what they're supposed to be and doing other things to make them more cost effective. The meats we consume today are much more calorie dense than it was about a century ago. I don't think we are at the point where we are able to predict the environmental effects on genetic expression. Most of our genes exists as heterochromatin which are tightly bound dna that do not go through transcription. Changing the physiology of organisms may cause demethylation of the heterochromatin which could cause unknown gene expressions which could have detrimental effects. I don't know too much about genetics but the fact is that GMOs haven't really done us much good. So for now, I do not support the use of GMOs.