> selective breeding takes a lot of time and for the species that we eat today we've had hundreds to thousands of years to observe if it harms us or not Pardon

> selective breeding takes a lot of time and for the species that we eat today we've had hundreds to thousands of years to observe if it harms us or not Pardon my ignorance, but how is this different from GMO? Sure, it took a while to get to that particular cultivar with selective breeding, but at some point we got there and started to scale up the production. Where's the guarantee that the last few mutations before scaling up were not harmful on the very long term? It's not that they ran long experimental trials before marketing the tangelo...