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There is no food supply issue,gmo does not avert any starvation crisis. Breeding is as much of a genetic modification as reproduction is. The genes are modifie
by badrabbit 8y ago
There is no food supply issue,gmo does not avert any starvation crisis.
Breeding is as much of a genetic modification as reproduction is. The genes are modified through indirect natural means. That isn't the same as directly selecting and modifying specific genes.
All food before the past 60 years was not genetically modified,that is to say humans did not modify specific genes. Organisms were interbred and the new genes although different,we did not edit them directly.
Back to the programming analogy - editing settings in an application (natural means) and modifying it or even editing the source code isn't the same as editing the machine code after reverse engineering it without even fully understanding what instructions are supported by the architecture.
If someone edits machine code to fix a bug for an arch nobody fully understands then you should run a full regression test and UAT before deploying.