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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by coldtea on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:29PM (#14970918)
>We've been creating GMOs since the dawn of agriculture. Doing it in a petrie dish changes nothing.

Yeah, if breadth and scale doesn't mean anything.

It's like saying: "We have been blowing things up since the advent of gunpowder by the Chinese a millennium ago. Doing it with atomic bombs changes nothing".

Traditional "GMOs" were already closely related, and the modifications that could emerge were very constrained. Not so much with GMOs that allow for arbitrary outputs.

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by bluGill on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:03PM (#14972503)
The breadth and scale is much smaller with GMO and random chance. A farmer several thousand years ago is responsible for as much genetic mutation of the human race as all the genetic manipulation that has made it to market. (though this will change quickly if we start making approval for GMO easy)
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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by bluGill on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:31PM (#14970934)
A radiation source constrains the modifications?
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