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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by Tade0 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:14PM (#14972601)
> Where does the assumption that I don't know how selective breeding works comes?

Easy: You're against the less random of the two. This means that apparently you don't know how GMO and/or selective breeding works.

> If it was that dangerous we'd know it by now.

This same logic applies to GMO, which has been around since the nineties. Aside from some late capitalism-esque economic effects nothing interesting happened.

> Whereas with GMOs you can have arbitrary changes and mixes.

And that is bad because...?

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by coldtea on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:26PM (#14972697)
>This same logic applies to GMO, which has been around since the nineties.

Yes, I can see how "since the nineties and regulated" gives the same guarantees as "for millennia".

>And that is bad because...?

Because they don't know the side-effects of what they're doing on top of it.

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