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Only if you believe the process followed by GMO engineering is the same as the process of selective breeding
by enqk 11y ago
Only if you believe the process followed by GMO engineering is the same as the process of selective breeding
- devy 11y agoSo your point is ... the same or not?
- enqk 11y agoWell I am careful because I am not a specialist. One would however expect GMO engineers to use techniques that are atypical of the way nature explores the possibility space. It is telling that they call it engineering, which requires intent and goals. Therefore I don't think knowing that selectively bred organisms have been safe so far says anything about the safety of GMOs.
- pluma 11y agoIn a way selective breeding is a subcategory of GMO engineering. There's nothing fishy about fish genes that are added to crops, for example -- it's just taking the element of chance necessary for mutations to develop out of it, really.