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GMO can involve genes from a totally different species, like fish genes + plant genes. "Cross-pollination" refers to within a species. Do you 2 pro-GMO people
by yesenadam 7y ago
GMO can involve genes from a totally different species, like fish genes + plant genes. "Cross-pollination" refers to within a species.
Do you 2 pro-GMO people have any reason you think it's "FUD, plain and simple"? Is that the argument, that it's no different to what nature does? Just repeating "FUD" like that doesn't make it so.
It's very reminiscent of the blanket dismissals of nuclear power/waste "fears" one reads on here, suggesting there are only bad, emotional-based reasons to have issues with it. Since there are no actual reasons, they must be just fears. Simple. "FUD, plain and simple".
But there is rational uncertainty about GMO safety–how could there not be.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThere's no such thing as 'genes from a species', same as there's no such thing as 'words from another book'. They're just words. Further, mutation, cross-species gene sharing (which can happen simply by digesting another species), gene-hopping happen commonly in nature already. Again, calling GMO evil while what happens in your backyard garden 'natural and good', is not good science. Its witchcraft, emotional, ignorant. Its FUD.