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Most of that is due to industrial-level selective breeding though. (The first commercial GMO was only released in 1994.) So GP's point still stands.
by majewsky 8y ago
Most of that is due to industrial-level selective breeding though. (The first commercial GMO was only released in 1994.) So GP's point still stands.
- dragonwriter 8y agoModern “Industrial level selective breeding” (which frequently uses a variety of mutagens to maximize the frequency and magnitude of genetic changes to select from) is distinguished from transgenics as a method of inducing genetic change largely by the fact that it's a lot less controlled as to what is going on beyond the targeted trait. It's kind of odd to scaremonger about organisms whose DNA is a result of transgenic modification but to be okay about those whose DNA is a result of modern industrial selective breeding.