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TBH I can't blame people for being weary of GMO in general after the decades of pumping people full or garbage hormones and whatever else it's a trust issue no
by sorry_outta_gas 5y ago
TBH I can't blame people for being weary of GMO in general after the decades of pumping people full or garbage hormones and whatever else
it's a trust issue not a "science" one
- ch4s3 5y agoGMO crops are exactly not "garbage hormones", and people consume them all of the time without complaint. I don't see anyone picketing the yogurt cases in their local super markets. Lot's of hormones survive intact through digestion and can enter the blood stream, but your body doesn't absorb the genetic material of food[1]. DNA is fragile and it's really hard to get foreign DNA into a cell, much less the nucleus. Our cells evolved a lot of specific defenses to prevent that. This is why DNA vaccines are so hard to develop and administer. Conflating things like rbST or rBGH in milk with novel genes in corn is nothing but scientific illiteracy. TL;DR it's really hard to get DNA into eukaryotic cells (yours) and you definitely can't do that with food. [1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170223102128.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170223102128.h...
- CRConrad 5y ago> Conflating things like rbST or rBGH in milk with novel genes in corn is nothing but scientific illiteracy. Yeah, so what? Nobody said anything else. It's still "a trust issue not a 'science' one", because most people are scientifically illiterate and probably always will be. To make a majority trust science (again [?]) in stead of distrusting it will have to be done by some other means than educating everyone into scientists.
- sorry_outta_gas 5y agoyou misunderstand