Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for September 28, 2015

I say run for the hills.

You say GMO, I say omg.

Let’s call the whole thing off.

The problem is that there are two kinds of GMOs. One is a good thing, doing what farmers have always done which is breeding for the characteristics you want. The other though is the questionable one.And now let’s try to remember this is a comic!

The snake river runs threw Idahwho.

Everything is genetically modified. The original single cell tha could said to be genetically original is long, long gone. All others have had their genetics modified by all sorts of forces. And they were random modifications, not deliberate controlled modification and were therefore far more likely to produce bad versions, most of which died off. Scientific genetic modification might produce corn borer proof corn. Random natural modification might well produce a skunkopotomous.

I can’t wait until my Frankenswine steak can glow in the dark.A little cabbage crossed with scropion venoum or web spinning goat crossed with a spider or salmon with added growth hormone never hurt anyone. Why we have to thank GMO for the tomato that tastes like a golf ball.What could go wrong with putting these things in the food chain?

this romance is doomed

Huckleberry Hound warned about this back in his 1960 episode, “Spud Dud.”

“Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, to-may-to, to-mah-to, let’s call the whole thing off!”

Thanks Scratchy18 and Neatslob for putting things right : not every food you put in your mouth has been genetically modified (treesareus) or everything is genetically modified (MeGoNow).I doubt that anybody knew how to modify a gene in a lab two hundred years ago. There was crossbreeding, no modification of the genes. Potatoes where potatoes, just the best for consumption, or the strongest against diseases.

@MeGoNow:“The original single cell that could said to be genetically original is long, long gone. All others have had their genetics modified by all sorts of forces.”According to you there was only one original cell, all the subsequent being genetically modified (which means, for example, that I’m a modified version of my parents, therefore I’m a GMO). So the question is: when did Adam Potato lived?