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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by deogeo on Sunday January 27, 2019 @03:30PM (#19013611)
> What health reason would drive us to ban one while allowing another?

Why limit it to health reasons? Personally, I'm worried because corporate and consumer interests don't align. When business designed food, we got high-salt/high-fat unhealthy stuff optimized for addiction. When it designed tractors, we got DRMed electronics only repairable by those blessed by the manufacturer. Unless incentives change, GMOs will be analogous, with the addition of copyright protection and restrictive IP agreements. A new front in the already difficult battle for consumer rights.

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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by SkyMarshal on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:23PM (#19013870)
Additionally there a number of epistemic problems in the way science is done these days, namely reproducibility, p-hacking, and corporate-backed junk science. Slapping the label "Science" or "Scientist" on something no longer automatically gives it a credibility pass. Need to see conflict disclosure, methodology, multiple reproductions, falsifications, etc.
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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by SigmundA on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:11PM (#19014069)
Sounds similar to slapping the label "Non-GMO", "Natural", and "Organic" on things.
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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by sitkack on Sunday January 27, 2019 @11:31PM (#19015336)
Organic is a controlled term when it comes to food. One cannot w/o penalty of jailtime just put "Organic" on a food label.

Natural has no such protection or meaning. When you see it on a label, just photoshop it out in your mind.

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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by dcbadacd on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:34PM (#19014176)
It's exactly the same shit just on the opposite end.
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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by SigmundA on Sunday January 27, 2019 @03:53PM (#19013717)
Seems like those issues exist regardless of the actual technique used to modify the organism. Perhaps we should focus on those issues rather than arbitrarily banning one GMO while allowing many others based on how the genes where altered.
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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by deogeo on Sunday January 27, 2019 @04:03PM (#19013772)
More powerful techniques exacerbate those issues, and more expensive techniques further concentrate power to a handful of corporations able to afford them. As the lobbies grow more powerful, fixing those issues will only get harder.
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