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Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ... by extrapickles on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:56PM (#17158830)
Exactly. Possibly getting cancer when you are 70-80 would be a minor price to pay to not be guaranteed to starve to death when you are 5.

This is especially true if they only need a few years of GMOs to break bad cycles with conventional agriculture (such as eating next years seeds because they have no food now).

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Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ... by KingMob on Sunday May 27, 2018 @09:41PM (#17170154)
A black swan would be less on the scale of "higher long-term risk of cancer", and more like "unintended side effect wiped out pollinators and now the local agriculture is imperiled".
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