I always think it funny when someone accuses me of being a shill when they recognize that I display the high level of extremely specialized education and experience to be qualified to work at such a place. Probably fewer than 0.1% of all people actually have the level of expertise needed to work in such highly technical fields. Thank you for that recognition.
I don’t quite buy your entirety of your arguments.
Genetic modification happens. Fine.
Man makes thijnbgs better by doing it?
Humans have been genetically modifying food ever since they invented agriculture. And if you don't think we have better food for it, just compare corn and its genetically unmodified parent, teosinte. Or compare any kind of tomato you want to the parent genetically unmodified tomato, which has a tiny fruit about the size of a blueberry. Or consider the many kinds of chickens there are, some for meat, some for eggs, and some for decoration, and compare them to their wild ancestor, the jungle fowl. And so on. In every case, humans propagated the organisms with superior qualities.
Maybe you can modify my genes and I might swallow all of it.. Or I might not.
If you have ever exposed your skin to sunlight, you have modified your genes. Sunlight causes a very specific type of DNA modification, which is repaired by your body *almost* 100% of the time (not 100%; this type of damage when unrepaired leads to cancer). Just the act of living causes modifications to your DNA. Luckily for you, humans have evolved an array of DNA repair enzymes that (usually) repair the DNA--but not always. Hence, you can get cancer and other diseases, and the longer you live, the more likely those diseases are.
DNA is extremely prone to modification, all by itself. In speaking of genetically modified foods, however, the DNA is almost a red herring. There are tens of thousands of genes in any given organism. The only ones that matter are those that become proteins, and it is the properties of the proteins, not the DNA, that give food its characteristics.
Shill? No.
but thanks for confirming suspicions.