Comments on: Sex Addicted Genetic Einsteins, or how meat might bring the world to its knees http://nikas-culinaria.com/2008/04/05/genetic-einstein/ eat with your eyes Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:19:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: n http://nikas-culinaria.com/2008/04/05/genetic-einstein/comment-page-1/#comment-17525 n Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:29:02 +0000 http://nikas-culinaria.com/2008/04/05/genetic-einstein/#comment-17525 blue spirit: yep, that is the implication! If you learn anything about corn genetics you will see that corn genes are notorious for being "jumpy" - genes and DNA fragments jump in and out of chromosomes and then get shared elsehwere. Yet, companies insist on making transgenic corn, even when they know it can lead to the release of those transgenes into wild plants. We are impacting our world in many ways. This bacteria issue is most obvious first because bacteria have such rapid generation times that they solve their environmental problems first (like becoming resistant) blue spirit: yep, that is the implication!

If you learn anything about corn genetics you will see that corn genes are notorious for being “jumpy” – genes and DNA fragments jump in and out of chromosomes and then get shared elsehwere.

Yet, companies insist on making transgenic corn, even when they know it can lead to the release of those transgenes into wild plants.

We are impacting our world in many ways. This bacteria issue is most obvious first because bacteria have such rapid generation times that they solve their environmental problems first (like becoming resistant)

]]> By: BlueSpiritWind http://nikas-culinaria.com/2008/04/05/genetic-einstein/comment-page-1/#comment-17524 BlueSpiritWind Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:44:16 +0000 http://nikas-culinaria.com/2008/04/05/genetic-einstein/#comment-17524 Wow, the implications are unnerving. So, from what I am understanding here, we are unintentionally mass producing antibiotic resistant soil bacteria, which may or may not be harmless, that could possible pass on their resistance to something more serious? This story brings to mind the time when they first discovered an antibody for Pneumonia. Wow, the implications are unnerving. So, from what I am understanding here, we are unintentionally mass producing antibiotic resistant soil bacteria, which may or may not be harmless, that could possible pass on their resistance to something more serious?

This story brings to mind the time when they first discovered an antibody for Pneumonia.

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