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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by andrei_says_ on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:01PM (#18742174)
Intentionally confusing genetic modification with cross breeding is one of monsanto’s favorite talking points.

Genetic engineering is more like changing the byte code in your OS hoping to change its functionality. Without having the source code.

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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by koube on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:05PM (#18742189)
This analogy is getting tortured beyond the point of usefulness, because the the other side of this analogy is that cross breeding is mixing files from two different repos together and hoping they still work.
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