Feed Us Seymour (Genetically Modified Organisms)

Three Equals Five

You eat clones and genetically modified organisms ... and frog. Well, at least, if you’ve eaten an apple, you’ve almost certainly eaten a clone and if you’ve eaten a strawberry in the last so many years, odds are you’ve ingested a genetically modified organism that’s part frog DNA. John, Mike, and Tom discuss Monsanto being the devil, cloning animals, vertical versus horizontal genetic transfer, ethics of breeding Bulldogs, Chihuahuas, Pugs, and other designer breeds, why people are scared of genetic engineering, whether or not apple orchards were intentionally destroyed due to prohibition, silk worms and boring worms and your corn becoming GMO, Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, frog DNA being spliced into strawberries, Tahitian Treat, vaping, and antifreeze, relative risk of GMO potential negatives to positives, Chestnut blight and Banana extinction, postharvest physiology and waste and logistics, cheap available nitrogen and the Haber process, Elon Musk and GMOs feeding the world, food control as a weapon, vulnerabilities of crop homogenization, antibiotics and natural adaptation, aspirin origins, recycling GMOs over time to address vulnerabilities, the FDA, EPA, and USDA regulation of GMOs, vegan anti-vaxxers, Germany dominating the EU and European food, off-label Reynold Wrap usage, global population increasing and decreasing, cheap available energy supporting agricultural production, food deserts, Irish potato blight and famine, increased herbicide usage with GMOs, saving the Bald Eagle from extinction results in children dying from malaria, the fragility of systems with GMOs, designer human babies and cloning your dog, unintended affects of GMOs in the ecosystem, giant GMO salmon in the Atlantic Ocean, bunnies and predator-prey relationships, tiny giraffes, and Total Farming.
#GMO #DNA #Monsanto #Farming #Food #Frogs #Strawberries #Bananas #Bt #Bacillusthuringiensis #Corn #Soybeans #Cotton #SupplyChain #Salmon
Gene Patenting
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02905-9
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/testing/genepatents/
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-patent-landscape-of-genetically-modified-organisms/
Did Prohibition Really Destroy Apple Orchards?
https://montezumaorchard.org/2021/01/14/burn-them-a-myth-of-cider-orchards-and-prohibition/
https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/the_apple_in_north_america
DNA Extraction - Silk Worms and Boring Worms and Your Corn
https://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/7f79e74ec2cd/3
GMO Crops Over Time
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption/
Banana Extinction
https://fruitworldmedia.com/index.php/featured/banana-disaster-example-history-repeating/
GMOs and World Hunger
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/biotechnology-solution-hunger
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674000/
Postharvest Physiology and Logistics
https://postharvest.ucdavis.edu
Nitrogen and The Haber Process
https://youtu.be/o1_D4FscMnU
https://www.instituteformindfulagriculture.org/writings-1/2016/3/24/the-haber-bosch-process-1
Did Rome Salt Carthage?
https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/5-imperialism-rome/

The Aspirin Story
https://www.aspirin-foundation.com/history/the-aspirin-story/

Irish Potato Famine GMO Solution
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/genetically-engineered-potato-resist-great-hunger-blight

Bt Corn and Increased Herbicide Usage
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/gmos-and-pesticides/

Genetically Modified Salmon Head to US Dinner Plates
https://apnews.com/article/whole-foods-market-inc-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-technology-a4ef4f24801f62ac65918e4560d7eb8a

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