Frilly - Only problem with GMO with things like grass & whatnot is what if it hybridizes into other things? I'm not saying that your lawn's gonna randomly mutate into a green monster that'll chase the neighbors' kids off & eat them. But what if the grass pollen gets into, say, your daylilies? How do we know that this is not going to create some kind of oddball daylily that will mutate into a green monster that'll chase the neighbors' kids. IMO, nature has created things perfectly the way they're supposed to be. Putting DNA from one thing (I'm going to use GloFish here because I know best about them) into something not even closely related is, IMO, bad. Selectively breeding traits is MUCH different than injecting DNA that doesn't belong. I'm sorry, but putting DNA from jellyfish into danios & tetras is NOT a good thing, even if it's for "cancer research" (I believe that GloFish were actually created in the same way that glowing cats & pigs were.. as cancer research:
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/... and
http://blogs.scientificamerica... and
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/... and
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/... ). I personally don't see where jellyfish DNA is meant to be in human DNA. If it was, we would be able to breed naturally with jellyfish & have viable offspring. But breeding roses to create new shapes & colors, or for drought tolerance, or for disease resistance.. all of this is done with roses & roses, not roses and violas or roses and delphiniums. Two separate critters. Heck, you can't even breed roses with strawberries, and they're from the same family! Just isn't going to work naturally. But if you get a "wild" rose (there are wild roses) and see a naturally occurring mutation (10 petals rather than 5), and you breed it to a "normal" wild rose and some of the seedlings have 10 petals, then that's modifying it as well, but NATURALLY. Not by gene splicing. Rose DNA, viola DNA, human DNA.. they all should just be that DNA & not some weird mixture. We're talking centaurs & chimeras here. Not naturally occurring.
/rant off
