"A planet where soylent green evolved from people?"

Scientists insert a human gene (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=632444) into rice to increase resistance to pollutants. Proponents say more resilient rice will feed more people, and it may even act as a sponge to filter pollutants. Others decry this as akin to cannibalism.

Thoughts?

btw it's Fava Bean

http://www.milioni.com/legumi/inglese/dati/3.htm

I am all for this because I think that eating old people is a good next step. The simple fact is that there is not enough food for the entire world to consume, especially when parts of the world are so damn wasteful with what they are lucky enough to have.

People who bitch and moan about artificial foods are fucking assholes because they're basically saying that their ease of mind takes precedence over millions of people just living.

There is plenty of food in the world. But people persist in living in places that can not support them. If you live in a desert or some other type of wasteland (or someplaace with too many people) you need to move to someplace that has less people and is not a wasteland.

Omigosh, one single human gene....not like humans don't have plenty of genes that are identical to genes of frogs, fruitflies and all matter of crawling and hopping life on earth.

The problem here is not the use of a human gene, the problem here is the use of an animal gene in a plant.

See, life diverged into plants, animals and fungi quite a while ago, messing with that will probably have implications of some sort.

But I voted yes, 'coz there are plenty of other things that will kill us before GM food.

Sounds like a good idea to me. If it improves the quality and health of a food I'm all for it, its not like you're actually eating a human or a part of a human. DNA genes mean nothing unless they're allowed to develop the organism, and thus its not a human since it hasn't, its in rice, its just a gene. All that makes it a "human" gene, really, is that it was singled out from a human body cell. So what? The people who say that this is cannibalism are not smart at all, considering that DNA in of itself is not race specific (and therefore not cannibalistic), i.e. we share many characteristics in common with primates, as well as other animals.

See, life diverged into plants, animals and fungi quite a while ago, messing with that will probably have implications of some sort.
I foresee this line in the script of some as-yet-unimagined Sci-Fi Channel original movie: Rice Rice Baby

I foresee this line in the script of some as-yet-unimagined Sci-Fi Channel original movie: Rice Rice Baby

Don't you dare to steal it or I call the giant spiders (http://forums.ayonae.ro/showthread.php?t=6578) on you!

If we eat stuff with rat feces in it every day..... what's a gene here or there gunna hurt???

AND... it will put to bed all those "I found a finger in my Wendy's hamburger" frivolous law suits....

The simple fact is that there is not enough food for the entire world to consume, especially when parts of the world are so damn wasteful with what they are lucky enough to have. Untrue.

A third of the world's 800 million hungry live in my country, India, where the number of the hungry and malnourished has been steadily rising. At the same time India is faced with an unmanageable food glut. From a food grain surplus of 10 million tons in 1999, the stocks have multiplied to 42 million tons. Instead of distributing the surplus among those who desperately need it, the government either wants to find an export market or release it in the open market.

http://www.foodfirst.org/resources/

Sorry i should have clarified what I meant.


Without the aid of science in creating better fertilizer, better pesticides and better methods there would not be enough food, genetic additives are a logical progression in that chain.

If we eat stuff with rat feces in it every day..... what's a gene here or there gunna hurt???

AND... it will put to bed all those "I found a finger in my Wendy's hamburger" frivolous law suits....

Lol!

"I, for one, welcome our new genetically enhanced grain overlords."

I for one would have issues with eating that stuff, but I don't like rice as it is! ;)

Even if I don't like chianti (and wine in general) I voted "yes", but I find it pretty ironic that we need to strengthen a cereal against something that we created. To enhance its production. Even if we don't need that enhancement.

Aaah man, I need a tree to hug now.

As the subject of "canabalism", we are sharing enough genes with the life pool, eating pork should be more an issue for the short-minded good-thinkers.

Now this:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7681252/

is when it gets more freaky.

Forget GM crop with human genes, it's all about live cattle with human brains.