BC Town Bans Genetically Modified Food Crops From Being Grown In Their City

Victor_von_Doom · 2012-05-24T19:32:02.643050+00:00

Ah excellent, the government telling you what plants you can and can't grow.

GravityKills · 2012-05-24T18:10:54.462411+00:00

I wish all government projects were as efficient as HAARP. It controls weather, earthquakes, minds and now time as well. As a taxpayer, I'm pleased that I got so much "bang" for my buck.

bu51n355 · 2012-05-24T17:54:11.322584+00:00

I was going through my comment history and wandered back into this thread. Anyway, the "engineered death gene" aka terminator gene has never been used in a commercially available crop.

Edit: Also GM plants are the most extensively tested plants in the plant breeding world. If you expose a plant to fifty times the lethal dose of radiation, you can put it on the market with no testing whatsoever. Expose it to carcinogens that cause wild shifts in protein structure? No problem. Back cross it with a wild relative, that produces toxic compounds? No problem, ship it to the supermarket.

TheRealHortnon · 1 day

For an idea this hilarious I don't even think you need a bot.

ChronicMasterBaker · 1 day

I was angry until I read the part about how the dispatcher was 17 hours into a 24 hour shift.

CrazyDrummer · 1 day

A sensationalist one.

CrazyDrummer · 1 day

The terminator technology has never been used in a commercially available crop.

CrazyDrummer · 1 day

Well, to be fair, you usually get a few sprouts from store bought potatoes. I usually end up with a few volunteers from potato peelings growing in the compost pile.

CrazyDrummer · 2 days

My parents raised some chickens when I was a kid. It was surprising finding out just how dirty, stupid and plain brutal chickens were.

vegetable_offender · 2 days

You know there are non-GM roundup resistant crops, right?

tuscaloser · 2 days

What are you using as potting medium?

SMEGMA_VON_SEMENFART · 2 days

There are also loads of free private wow servers.

Nuvoletta180 · 2 days

Don't worry, blood specks get into eggs fairly often it's just that the ones you pick up at the store have been inspected to cull any bloody eggs. Although, I'll admit, I have never seen that much blood in an egg before.

samueldlockhart · 2 days

Anybody know if it's compatible with Snes9x GX?

null_value · 2 days

Huh, really? I was down in Weed and shortly before totality some clouds from the west rolled in. Guess I chose the wrong spot.

EkezEtomer · 3 days

My thought process "Huh, a fake hand... wait who keeps plastic cups in the freezer? What possible purpose would that serve?

Krista619 · 7 days

You could always put the extra broth in a bag and freeze it for later use. That's how I store most of my home made broth.

Sp4m · 7 days

I've had good luck with Dollar store cooking spray. I don't get why (since it's basically just vegetable oil and lecithin) but it works much better then oiling the pan. With a oiled loaf pan my bread would usually rip when I took it out, with cooking spray I can 90% of the time just turn the pan upside down to pop the loaf out.

Downvotebot3000 · 8 days

Don't believe it, Downvotebot3000 has simply moved on the bigger and better things.

MojitoTea · 8 days

Brazil nuts also contain trace amounts of Radium.

yusernametaken · 12 days

I'm going to agree with yusernametaken, that doesn't look like mint.

imissyourmusk · 13 days

Yep It's kinda odd but of all the "parent" breeds of citrus only key lime and mandarins are commonly seen in supermarkets

imissyourmusk · 13 days

Terminator genes have never been used in a commercially available crop.

Herkimer · 13 days

I am amazed and shocked by this utterly unexpected turn of events.

Bcteagirl · 15 days

I just want to point out how amusing it is that your (very fair) position is getting downvoted by the bot.

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