Comments on: Authors http://www.biofortified.org Stronger plants, stronger science, and stronger communication. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eric Baumholder http://www.biofortified.org/about/authors/#comment-76899 Eric Baumholder Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:20:20 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?page_id=2253#comment-76899 Thank goodness the US doesn't export bread to Europe. Although, the EC could say the bread was not made *from* GMOs, but rather, made *with* GMOs, sort of how they make cheese using GM chymosin without batting an eye. What a wretched mess. Thank goodness the US doesn’t export bread to Europe. Although, the EC could say the bread was not made *from* GMOs, but rather, made *with* GMOs, sort of how they make cheese using GM chymosin without batting an eye. What a wretched mess.

]]> By: OrchidGrowinMan http://www.biofortified.org/about/authors/#comment-76890 OrchidGrowinMan Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:48:07 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?page_id=2253#comment-76890 Dear authors, I found something that I think you should post, biofortified yeast! http://2011.igem.org/Team:Johns_Hopkins Dear authors,

I found something that I think you should post, biofortified yeast!
http://2011.igem.org/Team:Johns_Hopkins

]]> By: Janet Reed http://www.biofortified.org/about/authors/#comment-68056 Janet Reed Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:00:46 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?page_id=2253#comment-68056 Dear Authors, Allow me to express by extraordinary gratitude for your site! In this age of unreason, I am so grateful that I have somewhere to go to for a respite from the fearmongering and untruths that I spend my working day dispelling. This is why I am turning to you directly for assistance today. I just saw this blogpost at Huffington and although my priorities do not permit me to respond to this one I cannot let it go completely so I am passing it along in hopes that some of you will tackle this challenge, if you are not doing so already. It is so full of errors and some have already jumped on it. Sometimes when they are this bad and its an obscure site I just let it go but this is Huffington and widely read. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/priya-advani/effects-of-genetically-modified-food_b_967667.html Keep up the good work and appreciate you considering this request. Best, Janet Cotton Incorporated Dear Authors,

Allow me to express by extraordinary gratitude for your site! In this age of unreason, I am so grateful that I have somewhere to go to for a respite from the fearmongering and untruths that I spend my working day dispelling. This is why I am turning to you directly for assistance today. I just saw this blogpost at Huffington and although my priorities do not permit me to respond to this one I cannot let it go completely so I am passing it along in hopes that some of you will tackle this challenge, if you are not doing so already. It is so full of errors and some have already jumped on it. Sometimes when they are this bad and its an obscure site I just let it go but this is Huffington and widely read. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/priya-advani/effects-of-genetically-modified-food_b_967667.html
Keep up the good work and appreciate you considering this request.
Best, Janet
Cotton Incorporated

]]> By: Paul O`Sullivan http://www.biofortified.org/about/authors/#comment-56882 Paul O`Sullivan Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:32:04 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?page_id=2253#comment-56882 Hi. Here is a concept which would solve world hunger and population pressures for many generations. It would make land and resources massively abundant and cost a tiny fraction of the cost of all the bio engineering projects presently underway. Before elaborating, I may as well mention that NASA is a huge waste of money when one considers its ultimate aim, i.e. space exploration/colonization. There are ways and means (via bio engineering) of effectively achieving the same outcome without leaving the planet. So here it is: Instead of genetically engineering corn, cattle and other organisms to produce more food, fuel etc would it not make more sense to genetically engineer humankind to consume less. Imagine if you will, a genetically engineered human population in which a man of six feet is scaled down to six inches. Such a human, would likely have a faster heart rate, shorter lifespan and a different perception of time. For such a population, units of length would appear 12 times longer, units of area would effectively be 144 times larger and units of volume/mass would effectively be 1728 times greater. In other words, if your house was merely 100 times smaller than the one you presently live in - it would appear more than 17 times larger i.e. an opulent mansion with dozens of rooms. With a deal like that, the concept could sell itself. A single cow could supply an entire town with milk or alternatively farmers could farm smaller herbivore mammals for their milk ... you get the idea. Crazy I know, but its nice to dream. Hi. Here is a concept which would solve world hunger and population pressures for many generations. It would make land and resources massively abundant and cost a tiny fraction of the cost of all the bio engineering projects presently underway. Before elaborating, I may as well mention that NASA is a huge waste of money when one considers its ultimate aim, i.e. space exploration/colonization. There are ways and means (via bio engineering) of effectively achieving the same outcome without leaving the planet. So here it is: Instead of genetically engineering corn, cattle and other organisms to produce more food, fuel etc would it not make more sense to genetically engineer humankind to consume less. Imagine if you will, a genetically engineered human population in which a man of six feet is scaled down to six inches. Such a human, would likely have a faster heart rate, shorter lifespan and a different perception of time. For such a population, units of length would appear 12 times longer, units of area would effectively be 144 times larger and units of volume/mass would effectively be 1728 times greater. In other words, if your house was merely 100 times smaller than the one you presently live in – it would appear more than 17 times larger i.e. an opulent mansion with dozens of rooms. With a deal like that, the concept could sell itself. A single cow could supply an entire town with milk or alternatively farmers could farm smaller herbivore mammals for their milk … you get the idea. Crazy I know, but its nice to dream.

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