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On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice.
that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special !
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Its actually rather common - especially among those who are allergic to birch-pollen.
EDIT: Some apples are worse than others (usually the greener the apple, the worse) - I believe Cox Orange is one of the better.
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On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special !
Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity.
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On February 09 2016 02:10 opisska wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special ! Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity.
oh ok, so it's related to pollen, it makes sense
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On February 09 2016 02:10 opisska wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special ! Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity.
see, now you know why GMO's are bad
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On February 09 2016 02:15 xM(Z wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 02:10 opisska wrote:On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special ! Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity. see, now you know why GMO's are bad
I am talking about me and my generation, people born, raised and allergic long before there were any GMOs though
edit: to prevent further discussion in this tangent, I would just note that I was roughly 13 when the first GM agricultural plants were allowed in the EU
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On February 09 2016 01:30 opisska wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 01:18 ThomasjServo wrote:On February 09 2016 01:15 OtherWorld wrote:On February 08 2016 23:45 opisska wrote:
I seriously doubt he has ever seen bedbugs, because if he had, he would have known that they are so tiny that eating them would probably cause no sensory effect whatsoever. My English is rather non-existent when it comes down to insects, but aren't bedbugs these ~1cm long bugs that unleash a pear odor when threatened? Stink bugs maybe? Bed bugs are what they sound, tiny bugs that tend to infest beds and bite the occupant of said bed causing irritation. OW: Have you ever seen the "stink bugs"? It's another thing I have never heard about, but quick research shows that they also do not live in Europe - native from east Asia, brought recently to the U.S. and spreading annoyingly there. There does not even seem to be a Czech word for those. Even the pear odor you mentioned matches to the description. However it's not really surprising that there is a confusion, because most people don't really know a lot about bedbugs - owing largely to their secluded lifestyle and size which makes it really hard to see one. Sadly, I do, because we fought them for quite some time.
Yeah looks like these stink bugs are what I'm talking about
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On February 09 2016 02:15 xM(Z wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 02:10 opisska wrote:On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special ! Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity. see, now you know why GMO's are bad
why does this has anything to do with GMO ?
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On February 09 2016 02:51 oGoZenob wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 02:15 xM(Z wrote:On February 09 2016 02:10 opisska wrote:On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special ! Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity. see, now you know why GMO's are bad why does this has anything to do with GMO ?
Well, since you modify genes, you modify proteins produced by the organism ; thus you can theoretically provoke alergic reactions to a given food on people who aren't alergic to the non-GMO equivalent (ie in theory you could eat non-GMO apples just fine but be allergic to GMO apples). However the current state of research doesn't clearly show a significant GMO = new allergies phenomenom.
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On February 09 2016 02:18 opisska wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 02:15 xM(Z wrote:On February 09 2016 02:10 opisska wrote:On February 09 2016 01:58 oGoZenob wrote:On February 08 2016 21:10 opisska wrote:
I have a mild allergy but like apples and the skin is by far the worst offender. However I am too lazy to peel them my so I end up eating them whole anyway - or just drinking apple juice. that's litteraly the first time i heard of someone allergic to apples. You sir, are special ! Most of people I ever met with pollen allergy have at least some negative sensation when it comes to fresh apples. And pollen allergy nowadays concerns like a quarter of the population ...But as I said, it's really mild, just sometimes unpleasant (and apparently not bad enough to make me really peel them all the time). On the other hand, walnuts could actually kill me in sufficient quantity. see, now you know why GMO's are bad I am talking about me and my generation, people born, raised and allergic long before there were any GMOs though edit: to prevent further discussion in this tangent, I would just note that I was roughly 13 when the first GM agricultural plants were allowed in the EU
i'd then argue about the definition of a GMO. for you, it seems to be anything that had its dna directly changed/altered by humans.
for me, a GMO could be the result of an artificial selection which humans have been doing since 12,000 BC.
Ex: artificial selection of wild mustard
![[image loading]](http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/images/evo/mustardselection.jpg)
a middle ground here would be:
Ruby Red
The 1929 Ruby Red patent was associated with real commercial success, which came after the discovery of a red grapefruit growing on a pink variety. The Red grapefruit, starting with the Ruby Red, has even become a symbolic fruit of Texas, where white "inferior" grapefruit were eliminated and only red grapefruit were grown for decades.[citation needed] Using radiation to trigger mutations, new varieties were developed to retain the red tones which typically faded to pink.[15] The Rio Red variety is the current (2007) Texas grapefruit with registered trademarks Rio Star and Ruby-Sweet, also sometimes promoted as "Reddest" and "Texas Choice". The Rio Red is a mutation bred variety which was developed by treatment of bud sticks with thermal neutrons. Its improved attributes of mutant variety are fruit and juice color, deeper red, and wide adaptation.
which is not technically a GMO(as per its current definition - directly modified DNA ) but it is a GMO.
basically, they existed long before you were born.
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Uh? No these are not GMOs. I guess they "genetically selected organisms", but GMO does refer to the fact of manually modifying the DNA.
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On February 09 2016 03:27 OtherWorld wrote:
Uh? No these are not GMOs. I guess they "genetically selected organisms", but GMO does refer to the fact of manually modifying the DNA.
the exact term here would be GE(genetic engineering/genetically engineered organism).
manually modified organism would be MMO ...
i see GMO having to broad of a definition because through artificial selection one does modify the genes of the plant.
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How do seedless watermelons propagate?
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On February 09 2016 03:47 riotjune wrote:
How do seedless watermelons propagate?
Well, when a momma and a poppa watermelon love each other very much...
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they're purposely engineered without seeds so you won't steal their patented gene/mutation.
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On February 09 2016 03:42 xM(Z wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 03:27 OtherWorld wrote:
Uh? No these are not GMOs. I guess they "genetically selected organisms", but GMO does refer to the fact of manually modifying the DNA. the exact term here would be GE(genetic engineering/genetically engineered organism). manually modified organism would be MMO ... i see GMO having to broad of a definition because through artificial selection one does modify the genes of the plant.
If you keep to selection, you just work with existing genetic material, you don't modify.
Because GMO are mostly banned in EU, researchers work on induced mutations (through irradiation and chemical attacks). From a existing strain, they irradiate and test resulting seeds until they get a mutant with a trait that's interesting.
Selection is the next step, crossing the mutated strain with reference plants in order to get a healthy one with the mutated trait.
Funny part : the mutation is provoked by external means and seen as "natural", therefore it goes though GMO interdictions.
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Well, my shitty job place is somewhere in nowhere, there is a short cut and a long way to get where cars passes by to get a ride to city center.
In the short cut there is sometimes some stray dogs. The long way is really horrible as it is mostly going up so it is kinda tiring.
How do I protect myself from those shitty dogs. I really want to avoid them but using the long way is really fucking stupid... 
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On February 09 2016 04:58 WrathSCII wrote:Well, my shitty job place is somewhere in nowhere, there is a short cut and a long way to get where cars passes by to get a ride to city center. In the short cut there is sometimes some stray dogs. The long way is really horrible as it is mostly going up so it is kinda tiring. How do I protect myself from those shitty dogs. I really want to avoid them but using the long way is really fucking stupid...
Where do you live that there are feral dogs laying in wait for commuters?
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On February 09 2016 05:08 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 04:58 WrathSCII wrote:Well, my shitty job place is somewhere in nowhere, there is a short cut and a long way to get where cars passes by to get a ride to city center. In the short cut there is sometimes some stray dogs. The long way is really horrible as it is mostly going up so it is kinda tiring. How do I protect myself from those shitty dogs. I really want to avoid them but using the long way is really fucking stupid... Where do you live that there are feral dogs laying in wait for commuters?
somewhere in nowhere
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On February 09 2016 05:10 WrathSCII wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2016 05:08 ThomasjServo wrote:On February 09 2016 04:58 WrathSCII wrote:Well, my shitty job place is somewhere in nowhere, there is a short cut and a long way to get where cars passes by to get a ride to city center. In the short cut there is sometimes some stray dogs. The long way is really horrible as it is mostly going up so it is kinda tiring. How do I protect myself from those shitty dogs. I really want to avoid them but using the long way is really fucking stupid... Where do you live that there are feral dogs laying in wait for commuters?
Well wherever in Nebraska you live, I'd say look into buying a car rather than risk bodily harm and rabies shots to get to your job. If that is out of the question, look for a new job. Otherwise pepper spray and a leather jacket?
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