> By GMOs we mean transgenics, a gene transfer process that is markedly in a distinct risk class from conventional breeding and other "modifications". ...the "

> By GMOs we mean transgenics, a gene transfer process that is markedly in a distinct risk class from conventional breeding and other "modifications". ...the "other modifications" including radiative genome modification, used to achieve the very same genome as developed for GMO, but since the former method is used for more than half a century (close to whole century, I think), it's much more difficult to suddenly make it scary than it was with genetic engineering. It's funny how the modified food we've been eating for decades suddenly got (vaguely) dangerous in the last twenty years, and only if the newer methods were used to modify it.