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Farmers always cross breed things ie cows or apples. It is a system that almost all farmers abide by
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Farmers have been cross-breeding cows to get the best milk genes in them for centuries. The only
difference is now we know they were getting the best genes, isolate them and jump forward 20
generations at a time. We can also make cross breeding that wasn't possible before. You can't get
grain to cross pollinate with fish, but the antifreeze genes sure are handy. |
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GM crops are not against transferring pollen between different species, or "conventional" cross
breeding. This is hardly in any way "natural". It seems that having it done in a laboratory instead
of a field makes it "unnatural". In fact, it is safer than conventional breeding.
I was angry when activists in India protested against foreign aid from America because it
was genetically modified and believed to be a "test" that they didn't want to perform on their own
kind. This led to the shipment never coming, the aid organization almost closing, and people going
hungry.
Man has been harnessing their environment ever since we lived in caves. This is just another
step. The "nature" argument is purely subjective, and is getting in the way of better environmental
protection, caps on world hunger, and the advancement of humanity as a whole.
This
is a pretty good unbiased essay
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Every argument is "valid". You may not agree with it, or you may have a good rebuttal to it, and it
may even be a gut-based emotional argument instead of rational position, but it's still valid. Many
people will choose to buy natural over modified, it matters to them, it matters even if other things
they consider "natural" were hybrid or cross bred too by some means other than GM DNA.
Personally I'm not too concerned with GM foods, they probably are safe, HOWEVER, I also don't think
it's unreasonable for people to demand the foods be labelled as such and for them to have the chance
to choose non-GM foods if they desire. |
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What man had done in the past is more to do with pick and mix. Cross pollinating to achieve a better
harvest. Now what they do is more like duck soup. The thing feared the most is upsetting the
delicate balance of nature. |
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18 Feb 2009 00:46
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