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When do we expect them to jack up the prices? The so-called “organic” foods are smaller and more expensive to produce safely.
If we did away with GMO food, we’d be in a lot of hurtin’. The anti-GMO crowd and the anti-vaccine crowd share the same lack for foresight and paranoia brought on by science illiteracy.
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Virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified, and long before science figured out how to do it directly, by manipulating the genes themselves. Go back 10,000 years, and try to find anything to eat that even remotely resembles what you eat today. Apples, for example, would have been hard, fairly bitter fruit, probably no bigger than a walnut. Wheat? No such thing - just some wild grain with a few skimpy kernels. Think you’d find anything that looks like a dairy cow? Good luck. You get the idea. The exceptions are pretty limited - things like wild-caught seafood, for example, is probably genetically unchanged from prehistory (but now featuring mercury, alas).
The only thing that’s changed is the method by which we alter nature. If anything, direct genetic manipulation is a lot safer than the former “let’s cross these and see what happens” approach. Cross-breeding typically alters thousands upon thousands of genes - it’s a crapshoot. Modern genetic engineering targets a handful of genes, with a pretty solid idea of what the outcome is going to be.
Next, they’ll be touting their gluten-free water.
Score another point for Big Superstition. Yay?
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