Contraceptive Corn

[DrHenley]

I think I saw this in an apocalyptic movie...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/sep/09/gm.food
Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation.
The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm.

By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.
'We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies,' said Epicyte president Mitch Hein.

 

[Amish Heart]

Corporations need to stop messing with our food.
Grow your own corn.

 

[Oddcaliber]

Feed it to the blue states!

 

[Mountain trapper]

There has to be a race issue in there somewhere.

 

[KateMTx]

There has to be a race issue in there somewhere.

There generally is where population control is concerned. The founder of Planned Parenthood was pretty racist.

 

[erqueen75]

Corporations need to stop messing with our food.
Grow your own corn.

Doesn't matter, does it?
Doesn't Monsanto own all the corn species grown in the U.S.A.? I'm asking seriously, I've read a lot about it, but unsure about the stories I've heard. Can anyone speak to this please?
Thank you
Erqueen75

 

[DrHenley]

Doesn't matter, does it?
Doesn't Monsanto own all the corn species grown in the U.S.A.? I'm asking seriously, I've read a lot about it, but unsure about the stories I've heard. Can anyone speak to this please?
Thank you
Erqueen75

Well, all corn is the same species, Zea mays
There are plenty of non-Monsanto corn varieties though.

 

[Amish Heart]

There are. Get your own seed and plant your own. I put up over 100 ears this year.

 

[Acdoctor]

Please oh please send all of it to blue states, they need all the help they can get. Just think of all the kids that won’t be aborted for profit.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I can think of a few places to send it to. Mostly the ones “immigrating” at the southern boarder

 

[rachaelk]

We grow our own. I cut off about 1000 ears this summer. I really dont like corn days. We grow silver king....peaches and cream.....bodacious......not that i even eat it much too high in carbs and diabetes.

 

[erqueen75]

Well, all corn is the same species, Zea mays
There are plenty of non-Monsanto corn varieties though.

Thank you, DrHenley.

 

[lonewolf]

I dont want any of that GM crap thank you very much.

 

[Ling31]

I think I saw this in an apocalyptic movie...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/sep/09/gm.food
Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation.
The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm.

By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.
'We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies,' said Epicyte president Mitch Hein.

You could fit the entire world’s population quite comfortably into New Zealand. There be no overpopulation so let’s do continue to happily breed. No need for contraception

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[lonewolf]

7-8 BILLION on a tiny island? yeah right.

 

[DrHenley]

7-8 BILLION on a tiny island? yeah right.

If you take the entire area of New Zealand, 268,710 km2, yes that works out. 7.8 billion people divided by 268,710 is 29,027 people per km2.
Manhattan has 28,873 people per km2.
BUT 1/3 of New Zealand is uninhabitable mountains. There is about 179,000 km2 of habitable land in New Zealand. 7.8 billion divided by 179,000 km2 is 43, 575 people per km2.

If we put them in Kazakstan, however, now the density is down to 3,290 per km2. That's a little over half the population density of London (5,666 per km2).

 

[lonewolf]

they'll be standing on each others shoulders, I've heard some BS in my time but that tops it.

 

[DrHenley]

they'll be standing on each others shoulders, I've heard some BS in my time but that tops it.

Living in Manhattan is not my cup of tea either. But some people love it.

 

[MOS0231]

I would want to see what the sanitation solution to such a population on that kind of land mass would look like first.

 

[lonewolf]

Living in Manhattan is not my cup of tea either. But some people love it.

not me, I was brought up in a city and couldnt wait to get out.

 

[Dracos]

The population density here is about 2 people per square mile, a little crowded but not too bad. Our planet is grossly overpopulated. The thought of everybody living on 2 small islands is both laughable and horrible. Look how badly people get along now and multiply that by millions. Contraceptive corn? Sounds like a good idea. Contraceptive beer might be better though.

 

[backandbeyond]

Living in Manhattan is not my cup of tea either. But some people love it.

How many acres of land does it take to provide every new yorker with the food oil water minerals and finished products that they consume I wonder.

As for population control, either we take care of it or nature will, and everything we strive for is to save lives and improve health, thereby exacerbating the loading on the planet.

 

[Amish Heart]

I'm assuming the New Yorkers you're talking about are only consumers of product and not producers? There are many New Yorkers that are producers that don't live in NY city. There are amish populations in the state.

 

[Mountain trapper]

You could fit the entire world’s population quite comfortably into New Zealand. There be no overpopulation so let’s do continue to happily breed. No need for contraception View attachment 13688.

Great. Let's send most of the world's population to NZ. Of course they'd have no way to feed them, but I'm OK with that.

 

[Digout]

Send the politicians there first.

 

[Acdoctor]

Send the politicians there first.

We don’t want over crowding so let send the politicians to gitmo where the can be one bipartisan family.

 

[lonewolf]

they do say that if everyone on the planet lived the same sort of life as the average New Yorker we would need something like 3 planet Earth's.

 

[Oddcaliber]

I'm not average and not a New Yorker!

 

[lonewolf]

I'm not average and not a New Yorker!

neither am I!

 

[MOS0231]

How about this: "Lettuce" Vaccinate You: Why You Can't Trust the Food Supply