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With the availability of genetic sequencing you can get from anywhere A -> B in the reachable genetic search space through selective breeding, and still qualify
by kobeya 9y ago
With the availability of genetic sequencing you can get from anywhere A -> B in the reachable genetic search space through selective breeding, and still qualify for regulatory purposes as non-GMO. You can get out of that loophole by prohibiting the non-GMO label for anything that was bred based on direct genome sequencing, but that's a game a whack-a-mole as I come up with another scheme.
And at the end, what's the point? Regulate what you actually care about in the food, not what process was taken to get there.