My father is quite the scientist and he has no problem with it in principle.
According to him, some of the arguments against it are cretinous, the kind of half-baked well-meaning-but-ultimately-ignorant-and-based-on-emotions-not-facts twaddle like those anti-MMR flids who've caused this measles epidemic.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:34, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

'oh it's unnatural' etc - as if selective breeding etc is in some way 'natural'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:36, Reply)

Oh, you mean the
"GM foods are genetically engineered mutants one lightning strike away from becoming sentient and EATING US RIGHT BACK" stuff?

You have no idea how many times I had to self-correct writing that sentence. It seems I was determined to write "genitally engineered". I swear I don't know what's been up with me the last few days. I'm not right.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:40, Reply)

This thread is shit
Have you done a thread this month yet?
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:45, Reply)

Still April, innit.
Did two the first week. I'm out until June, now.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:56, Reply)

pfffttttttttt.......

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:56, Reply)

any thread is only as shit as the posters

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:57, Reply)

Thanks for that 'Roy Walker'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Apr 2013, 8:56, Reply)