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To: Mase
back up Monsanto's claims of GMO's not being harmful.

You've been eating genetically modified food your entire life. As a matter of fact, every single agricultural product available in our food supply has been genetically modified. And we are living longer, on average, than at any other time in human history.

Sounds like a well designed test to me, that has delivered results that are impossible to argue with. But here you are....


You are also conflating GMO with hybridization, and selective breeding.

And ..... ignoring the fact that GMO food began to make it to market in 1994.
38 posted on 09/28/2014 8:36:27 AM PDT by khelus
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To: khelus
You are also conflating GMO with hybridization, and selective breeding.

Nonsense. Selective breeding and hybridization results in genetic modification by changing the DNA of the organism being bred. With this method, you really have no idea what you are going to end up with, but because we have been genetically modifying plants and animals in this manner for thousands of years, no one bothers do conduct safety tests on the end product. Where is your outrage?

On the other hand, with modern methods of genetic engineering (beginning around 1995), we know exactly what we are going to get rather than randomly mixing genes and hoping we deliver the desired traits. Modern bio-engineering is a much safer, more accurate, and much faster method for delivering the desired features. To claim otherwise suggests a serious misunderstanding of the entire process of genetic modification.

ignoring the fact that GMO food began to make it to market in 1994.

GMO food began making it to market thousands of years ago. Everything you eat today, except for some species of fish and maybe a tree nut or two, has been genetically modified. There is absolutely no way we could feed the earth's population without genetically modifying plants and animals. This will become even more critical in the future as the world's population increases and the amount of land available for farming declines.

45 posted on 09/28/2014 9:56:35 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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