Frankenfish

[Chief Grey Bear]

exactly - gm crops and livestock (cattle, goats, sheep ect...) will help eliminate world hunger.

MMMMmmmmm, goats and sheep.

[snagged in outlet 3]

They are talking about EATING them Chief.

SIO3

[flytyer57]

They are talking about EATING them Chief.

SIO3

Rack of lamb?

People been eating goat and sheep for centuries.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Come on Chief, not here!

As to goats and sheep and cattle and whatever else that grazes, I don't think that's the answer. The people are starving because they can't grow enough to eat, much less feed some big hunk of protein. They'll stop being hungry when they either leave the desert, learn to eat what can be grown else where and shipped in bulk, such as rice corn or wheat. Their protein should most likely be fish, but not salmon, altered or otherwise, but an algae eating freshwater fish or a saltwater fish, for areas with ocean front property. Somalia's a great example, they're hungry and there biggest cash crop is piracy. How are you going to relieve their hunger with salmon? Salmon are probably the worst fish for the job, but a great fish for high priced sales in this country.

Genetically altered salmon would help lower prices, at least until the normal suppliers go out of business then it will be once again a sellers market.

[Outside Bend]

Just thinking....

I once read an article where the author was discussing Atlantic Salmon, and how their rarity is a completely artificial situation- upon colonization, they were used as fertilizer, they were fed to indentured servants because they were the cheapest protein available, etc. My how the world has changed...

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I doubt GM products will end world hunger any faster than irrigation, pesticides, or artificial fertilizers did- they've all been purported to be the end of famine at one point or another.

IMO, people do a terrible job of engineering the landscape when comparied with nature. When people realize they have to adapt to their surroundings as opposed to the other way around, that's when we'll be able to solve hunger and many of our other enviromental/social problems.

[exiledguide]

I read about that online this morning and saw it on the evening news. Most people were more worried about eating these genetically enhanced/modified fish than anything. I don't see the problem. We have been eating genetically enhanced/modified foods for a whole lot of years now,for instance there are too many vegetables to mention. The way I figure, we will have to either embrace this science or starve. Besides, there are some big Browns and Rainbows out there already setting records that were born in test tubes.

Just my 2 cents.

Seriously can you tell me how a rainbow trout can be born in a test tube. I thought you needed male sperm and female eggs in proper water either in a stream or hatchery. Also I would like to know what genetically enhanced/modified foods are on the market. I thought I was buying natural food. Obviously chemicals are used for fertilization and pest control but I was not aware plants were genetically altered I thought newer plants were improved hybreds. The problem we find more and more is food from Communist China and Communist Viet Nam (sorry I guess not politicaly correct I guess the Army did too good of a job on me) on the shelves in stores. It is getting to be difficult to find Salmon, Tilapia, or catfish farmed in the USA you really look at the label. We eat alot of Salmon But I don't buy foreign produced or caught fish. There is no way I would buy this crap fish. I do have to add I could be wrong but I don't think so.

[Outside Bend]

Seriously can you tell me how a rainbow trout can be born in a test tube. I thought you needed male sperm and female eggs in proper water either in a stream or hatchery

You do need male sperm and female eggs, but they don't have to be in the fishes' body. Trout reproduce externally, so you can strip the fish of eggs and milt (sperm), and reproduce them artificially- that's how most hatcheries work.

Also I would like to know what genetically enhanced/modified foods are on the market. I thought I was buying natural food. Obviously chemicals are used for fertilization and pest control but I was not aware plants were genetically altered I thought newer plants were improved hybreds. The problem we find more and more is food from Communist China and Communist Viet Nam (sorry I guess not politicaly correct I guess the Army did too good of a job on me) on the shelves in stores. It is getting to be difficult to find Salmon, Tilapia, or catfish farmed in the USA you really look at the label. We eat alot of Salmon But I don't buy foreign produced or caught fish. There is no way I would buy this crap fish. I do have to add I could be wrong but I don't think so.

Roundup-Ready- be it soybean, corn, beets, or other seed- has been genetically modified to resist pesticide. I believe there are also some GM rice varieties in production. Basically, if you eat grain, or eat animals that eat grain, it's likely you've been eating GM organisms at some point in the food chain.

[Chief Grey Bear]

They are talking about EATING them Chief.

SIO3

Come on Chief, not here!

A

You guy's don't dig my Homer Simpson impersonation?????

[flytyer57]

You guy's don't dig my Homer Simpson impersonation?????

Doh!

[Fly_Guy]

I doubt gm foods will entirely eliminate world hunger, but drought resistant crops and livestock with a genetic edge for survival and health in difficult conditions will certainly help. Something tells me that we aren't going to be sending these salmon to Uganda though...