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Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ... by oxryly1 on Friday May 25, 2018 @07:42PM (#17159100)
Selective breeding doesn't create fundamentally new organisms like transgenic GMOs, however -- organisms for which there is no method to predict their interactions with our one and only environment (Earth, if that wasn't clear :p).
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Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ... by dragonwriter on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:41PM (#17159627)
> Selective breeding doesn't create fundamentally new organisms like transgenic GMOs,

Yes, selective breeding (both artificial and natural selection) create fundamentally new organisms.

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Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ... by JoshMnem on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:46PM (#17159651)
> GMOs are not necessarily any more fundamentally new than hybrids and mutated strains produced through other techniques.

"Not necessarily" but sometimes.

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Re:Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three leading ... by nradov on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:42PM (#17159630)
That is incorrect. GMOs are not necessarily any more fundamentally new than hybrids and mutated strains produced through other techniques.
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