GMO

[nononsensemumof2]

Morrisons, Siansburys, Co-Op and M&S have joined Tesco in allowing GMO fed chickens on their shelves.! This is the tip of the ice burg.!
There is an International protest against GMO on 25th May, I urge you all to organise to join in, if you value choice about what you eat, because if GMO is allowed into our food chain, we will have let the genie out of the bottle, forever.!
Cross contamination and patented law suits will be the order of the day, if we allow Monsanto to get a foot hold on our food supply.
Not only is this vile virus a health hazard to humans, but it is destroying our environment too, re bees, etc.
Plus it is attempting to own Mother Nature via its patented seeds, thereby selling us dangerous produce with a corporate stamp.!
We must all wake up to this onslaught against nature and our right to chose. Please get out in force and demand an end to this profit lead evil against nature now.

[FarBetterNow]

nononsense: some of these proGM women will be the same ones who scream about having to breathe in some one's cigarette smoke at the school gates.

I despair with you.

[nononsensemumof2]

Chicken DNA? What?
DNA is the means of testing genetics.! You know like determining whos the father of your child.?
If you test your chickens DNA from Sainsburys, M&S etc in the future you will find that its been contaminated with Monsantos rouge genes.ie. GMO. Meaning its less nutritional, full of weird chemicals that should never be present and contaminating the rest of the natural environment.

[PacificDogwood]

Interesting article about Lynas - thanks for linking Craps.

I think we'll be having cheap chicken fajitas tonight...

[FarBetterNow]

Tee: Food will not be cheaper.
We are being conned.
In the same way that we were told in the 50s that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it wouldn't be metered.

Monsanto profits will be up though. We can all be happy about that.

[Tee2072]

nononsensemumof2:

First, learn what DNA is. Then come back and tell us what GMO does. Because what you just wrote? Is wrong.

[CrapsWithBears]

DNA is the means of testing genetics

Are you kidding me? You expect us to believe anything you say when you're so clearly scientifically illiterate?

[claig]

'I need food to be cheap.'

Are you a fan of horseburger too?

[WestieMamma]

WestieMamma There's no point posting evidence don't you know scientists are all just shills for the Illuminati. If they're not trying to inject our kids with mercury to give them autism, they're feeding us GMO to get us hooked on aspartame!

My scientist is well dodgy. He works for the EU and disappears every few weeks to attend piss ups secret meetings.

[FreddieMisaGREATshag]

DNA is not only the means of testing genetics.

Unless my 'O'-level biology teacher was wrong.

[ClayDavis]

FarBetterNow, there's a large quantity of evidence that breathing in cigarette smoke is harmful to your health. Could you link me to a peer-reviewed showing evidence that consumption of GM foods can cause serious health issues?

[PacificDogwood]

nononsence, genes (as in 'GMo') are made up of DNA, yes?

Chemicals in cheap meat are introduced via food supplements/vaccinations/medicines, not GMO.

Less nutritional?? Oh my... I truly don't think you fully understand this, sorry.

[Tee2072]

I have no problem with horseburger.

The problem with the horse issue was not that it was horse. It was that it wasn't labelled horse and no one knew where the horse came from.

Horse meat is quite tasty and eaten in many parts of the world.

Next!

[FreddieMisaGREATshag]

And I am with Tee. I don't buy processed food. I buy whole chickens and whole joints of beef. I even grind my own mince. No horseburgers here. And we eat a lot of veggie meals.

But no way am I paying £13 for a small chicken. Not when an ordinary whole chicken is £3-something.

[Tee2072]

BTW, OP also lost due to the Mumsnet Addendum to Goodwin's Law, which involves mentioning other posters children and the feelings the other poster does or not have towards them.

So double loss, there, really.

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

Chickens contain DNA.

If you eat one, you eat their DNA.

Really.

It gets digested though, it will not turn you into a chicken.

[Dawndonna]

Still waiting for empirical evidence instead of a lot of shouty 'she knows what she's on about.

[PacificDogwood]

FarBetter, I agree with the point you are making. 'Tis about money and politics. Not directly about health (as in, your GMO fed chicken is not going to kill you, but control of foods and massive profiteering certainly has an effect on public health - mainly in developing countries though...)

[Tee2072]

BAWK!

::Tee turns into a chicken. And an avocado::

[WorraLiberty]

It gets digested though, it will not turn you into a chicken.

I was rather hoping it'd make me shit out eggs for breakfast

[Tee2072]

That would be handy Worra! And save on the food bill.

[PacificDogwood]

Horse meat scandal was about labelling AND whatever vetinary meds mights have been in horse meat, I think.
Also about what else might be in processed food that we don't know...

Horse meat salami - yum !

[FarBetterNow]

Clay: Usually scientific evidence comes 20 years too late.

[CrapsWithBears]

I'm so bloody pleased to see so many skeptical people on Mumsnet, you have no idea how many people I know in real life who would be planning to protest outside their nearest TESCOs had they read that.

[ClayDavis]

I'll take that as a no then.