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In reply to the discussion: They are genetically engineering the American Chestnut... [View all]AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,846 posts)78. Maybe you ate GM material, and it explains your bizarre behavior?
You may become the first person I put on ignore.
Post #3 asks about grafting, and is it acceptable, Post #20 answers it and my Post #44 explains it further. You come in on Post #47 with "Naturalistic fallacy" B.S. When I ask what is "fallacy" you are the person who "Fails to answer a question."
You must be having a discussion in your head that is not part of this thread.
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Aren't all modern crops the result of Genetic engineering of one sort or another?
el_bryanto
Oct 2012
#1
Grafting is done to select a tree for it's production, and put it on a sturdy rootstock
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#44
I was answering a question, what is "confounding" about that answer?
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#54
maize, corn, has been subjected to thousands of years of forced breeding, cross-breeding, and more
ChairmanAgnostic
Oct 2012
#55
Animal breeding can be considered "forced" but more often is refered to as "selected"
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#61
"Other researchers are trying to attack the blight with viruses" is the third approach. nt
bananas
Oct 2012
#94
Cross-breeding is natural, and occurs naturally as well. Genetic modification is NOT natural.
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#17
Your just expanding on the fallacy of the ancients by offering up the natural fallacy.
HuckleB
Oct 2012
#22
Wait a minute. Are you insinuating that lab-inserted genes are equivalent to cross-pollination?
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#36
Well, I'll admit there are pros and cons to both, but artificial is playing with fire.
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#89
I've wondered if it has contributed to colony die offs. I think lawn poisons have.
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#34
We've always had plenty of flowers and veggies, less grass every year, as have our neighbors.
HuckleB
Oct 2012
#37
Anecdotes, perhaps not, but when all of the birds and bees (no pun intended) are in YOUR yard...
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#41
I wasn't either when I was a kid. Nobody poisoned the lawns then. I like your environment.
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#46
ROFLMAO! Yeah, I guess you could get sick of it that way. We rarely mow either.
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#56
I have enough trouble getting a row of spinach to grow without the rabbits mowing it down.
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#29
Impossible. If Monsanto was involved, they wouldn't be able to reproduce so you'd have to buy more..
HopeHoops
Oct 2012
#35
The American Chestnut was the Redwood of the East Coast, in that it was the overstory tree.
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#19
I support the return, I have two orchards of American and Hybrid trees
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#57
It's cross breeding, which occurs in nature and has been used by humanity for 1000's of years.
NutmegYankee
Oct 2012
#59
In post #6, HuckleB posts a link, a paragraph is posted in Message text:
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#68
the first link in a "Dangers of Genetically Modified Plants" search brought this:
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#75
There are several posts about this trouble with Genetically Modified crops
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#21
That is a very poor article, but check the Nature article in post #6
AnotherDreamWeaver
Oct 2012
#60
Ah, but you didn't know that, until I posted an article with more than a couple paragraphs.
HuckleB
Oct 2012
#74
There is no other option. The original tree is nearly exinct from the blight.
NutmegYankee
Oct 2012
#48
Weird that. Some are being grown up the street from me and it is massively low tech.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#81
Thought I would add a link about toxic GMO crops for all those enablers who posted here
AnotherDreamWeaver
Jun 2013
#97