Re: [CH] question for a big brain

Oatmeal Jack (oat@intrepid.net)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:09:24 -0400 

I was reading in Nature today that some scientists have found a way to 
genetically alter tomato plants so that they can now grow in salty soil, 
the leaves keep the salt and the tomatoes remain normal, that will help so 
many people to be able to eat! For all you people out there afraid of GM, 
the entire metabolic pathway for cap is know, all the key enzymes are 
identified, it only takes a scientist who wants to have some fun and prove 
he can do it to make a super super hot chile so he can blow his chile 
eating friends away. It will come, either as a real commercial application 
or for just fun but one day they will be here, you wont be able to hide 
from it and you can shoot everyone that you dont agree with.

Pepper Jack


>>Sure! Let's inflict catastrophic damage to a significant
>>portion of our environment just for funsies! Bonus points
>>to the first person to set off a world wide extinction event!
>
>I think it's pretty weird to think that a pepper could cause our death and 
>take over the world, leaving us as slaves and weak like never before. 
>Surely we don't have the power to resist such a powerfull enemy, but maby 
>just digging the plants and burning them will do the thing!!!
>
>Also, it's funny to call those things funsies. What I said is one, that I 
>know. But what about a new type of rice that produces vitamin A . It would 
>help the life of millions in small poor contries, but we surely wouldn't 
>want to take the chance to see a better rice take over the world, so lets 
>just watch the poor people die...
>
>BTW, this type of rice as already been created by adding two genes to the 
>plant. It's safe, it works. Because of green peace, this rice cannot be 
>produced ( they said WE didn't needed that type of rice since we already 
>have a good one and other ways to get vitamin A ).
>
>There are also genes modification for the benefict of environment. They 
>change a gene in pigs which makes their "crap" none toxic for the rivers. 
>Such a thing will probably be rejected again.
>
>We also have to know that a gene modification only adds, remove a couple 
>of genes. We don't say a thing when we cross two types of plants together, 
>like some of us talk about doing with their peppers. It's funny cause this 
>action changes thousands of genes at random, but since it wasn't made 
>under the plastic outfit, it's no problem.
>
>So maybe gene modification ain't just little funsies that we do during the 
>weekends! Maybe we're not investing millions of dollars to have a little 
>fun during our pass time!
>
>
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