People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of Food Science

Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by headShrinker on Sunday January 27, 2019 @11:17PM (#19015294)

Crop breeding is completely different from GM. The first GM products had fish DNA... in 1995? You can't do that with 1800s science.

There's a lot happening in this sector, some of it good and some of it bad. GM isn't necessarily bad, but it might be pandora's box. Monocultures are definitely bad even if they are pest resistant. We don't know how this will play yet. Some apprehension is normal.

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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by SigmundA on Monday January 28, 2019 @08:29AM (#19017250)

Crop breeding is a form of GM, I am assuming you are talking about targeted gene insertion, what about mutagensis a 1920's tech, is that ok?

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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by deogeo on Monday January 28, 2019 @08:37AM (#19017292)

If crop breeding is GM, then all reproduction is GM - you've diluted the term so much it lost all meaning.

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Re:People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding of... by SigmundA on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:14AM (#19018594)

So there is no distinction between natural selection and human directed artificial selection? I thought the whole point of the term was whether humans where doing the modification producing organisms that would not otherwise exist in nature.

How humans accomplish the genetic modification seems to be the point of contention and I argue its poorly defined as there are many techniques in between selective breeding and gene insertion that we use to perform the modification.

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