Oncogenes used in GE food.

[beginner99]

Eating ocogenes is compeltly safe, because dna gets digested. That's actually the whole point of digestion. Break down the complex molecules, mainly protein, to smaller one and use them for your own proteins and other stuff as building blocks.

GE food is safe in all respects but I agree that there are social and patent issues.

About antibiotic resistance:

it's only useful for bacteria if they have the pressure to need it (= in hospitals) or certain ecological niches. But on a maize field it's counter productive.
This is the main theme of Evolution. Nothing is for free, everything a compromise.

resistance = consumes ressources. if there is no pressure to be resistant it's counterproductive and the bacteria will qucikl be replaced by non-resistant faster growing ones. And ampilicin is widley used in micro/molecular biology as marker. the marker (=resistance) shows that the bacteria has the desired gene.

 

[William Gaatjes]

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Eating ocogenes is compeltly safe, because dna gets digested. That's actually the whole point of digestion. Break down the complex molecules, mainly protein, to smaller one and use them for your own proteins and other stuff as building blocks.

GE food is safe in all respects but I agree that there are social and patent issues.

About antibiotic resistance:

it's only useful for bacteria if they have the pressure to need it (= in hospitals) or certain ecological niches. But on a maize field it's counter productive.
This is the main theme of Evolution. Nothing is for free, everything a compromise.

resistance = consumes ressources. if there is no pressure to be resistant it's counterproductive and the bacteria will qucikl be replaced by non-resistant faster growing ones. And ampilicin is widley used in micro/molecular biology as marker. the marker (=resistance) shows that the bacteria has the desired gene.

I fully agree, if all of these genes are exposed to saliva and stomach acid, there is not a problem they will fall apart and be inert. But these genes are inside plant cells. We have to accept the possibility that a large part of those genes will enter the intestines and colon unaltered. Especially when eating plants. If we could fully digest plant material, we would not need the colon. I mean we get 90 % of our food from the intestines. The colon is needed to digest plant material as for example cellulose because it passes the intestines almost unaltered. And we use billions of bacteria to process the fiber material from plants. As such, the chance rises significantly that some of those GE genes gets absorbed by bacteria in the colon. And since every meal is comprised of GE food and on average the western diet is 3 meals a day...
If there are tests done that it is perfectly save, then i am alright with it. But the track record of dealing with health problems from their products of these companies does not vouch for them. And all testing is done voluntarily meaning there are no tests done. Testing costs money...