> Any result that produced by produced with genetic modification can be produced with selective breeding if given sufficient time. This is actually what plant

> Any result that produced by produced with genetic modification can be produced with selective breeding if given sufficient time. This is actually what plant breeding companies are currently doing. First they plan which gene they need to modify. Then they produce large numbers of randomly mutated individuals (using radiation or chemicals to introduce random mutations), and then modern genetic screening methods help them to filter out the individuals with the desired mutation. Then they do several generations of crossings to isolate and transfer the modified gene to the cultivar. This takes about a decade of work, but it can be cheaper and faster than the legal work to get a GMO variety approved for production, which also takes at least a decade. Or after a decade of legal work the result might still be a rejection, especially in Europe.