Fluorescent ball pythons...I kid you not.

I challenge anyone here to tell me that they have never eaten a banana.

Oooo ooooo!! Me!!! Me!!! I haven't had a banana in years and years...decades, actually. And besides that, they are not very local to where I live ;)

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Oooo ooooo!! Me!!! Me!!! I haven't had a banana in years and years...decades, actually. And besides that, they are not very local to where I live ;)

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The question was (my own, and wilomn's) not whether you do eat them, but whether or not you ever have.

# of those who have eaten modified food? 100% absolutely

# of those who have modified food in their regular diets? remains to be seen, i guess.

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The question was (my own, and wilomn's) not whether you do eat them, but whether or not you ever have.

# of those who have eaten modified food? 100% absolutely

# of those who have modified food in their regular diets? remains to be seen, i guess.

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I had a banana in a smoothie back when I lived in Virginia... 3 decades ago. When did they start to modify them?

100% is an unforgiving percentage...careful of not having scoogie room :P

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That might be a correct figure.
I'm the one left out given where I get my food and the people I know who grow it... I don't shop at 'regular' stores :oops:

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We as a society have been genetically altering our food supply for decades -- whether it be for larger tomatoes or bigger breasted chickens - even if you are farming your own veggies there is an extremely high probability that the stock from which your food was originated was modified.

i dont know if anyone noticed but these are rats not mice! look at the pics!

also if you would of payed attention to the episode on the history chammel about rats last week you would of seen that tetonic produces these and this trait is used when they add other genes besides the color gene! so these RATS (not mice)could in fact be altered genetically in other ways that could be unhealthy for the rodent in question!:colbert:

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I had a banana in a smoothie back when I lived in Virginia... 3 decades ago. When did they start to modify them?

100% is an unforgiving percentage...careful of not having scoogie room :P

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unless you think the banana that was in your smoothie looked like this:

http://www.apsnet.org/education/Less...ages/fig18.jpg

...your banana was modified.

Diploid (bananas capable of bearing seeds) are practically inedible. We've been taking advantage of triploid (sterile) bananas since before we really knew what genetic modification was.

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i dont know if anyone noticed but these are rats not mice! look at the pics!

also if you would of payed attention to the episode on the history chammel about rats last week you would of seen that tetonic produces these and this trait is used when they add other genes besides the color gene! so these RATS (not mice)could in fact be altered genetically in other ways that could be unhealthy for the rodent in question!

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They use this gene to look at what's going on in mice who are intentionally given the genes for a genetic anomaly homologous with one present in humans. That does not mean that all mice that are given GFP coding regions have one of the controlled genetic problems - they can make healthy GFP mice just as readily as inflicted ones. It's even easier.

The genetic problems you're thinking of are likely located elsewhere on the genome - probably not even the same chromosome - they have nothing to do with GFP.

what picture are you looking at? I'm sure if they know enough to alter genomes, they know what species they're working with.

holy heck, people.

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i dont know if anyone noticed but these are rats not mice! look at the pics!:

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To me some looked like mice but some looked like hairless rats. I wonder what a regular white or hairless rat looks like under a black light. I know most white things look pretty bright and glowy under black lights. Kinda creepy if you ask me. lol

I really don't see the difference between this and selectively breeding morphs to get a specific morph. Neither are natural (yes morphs occur in the wild but would never breed and surviver) and neither are helpful (to the animal).