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Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas by dominotw on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:03AM (#19918963)
> yes those genetically modified plants are somewhat scary

I have a question about this. Aren't all vegetables that we eat now are 'genetically modified' by humans. There were no ancient tomatoes or ancient okra.

Is there implication that GMO's that were made in lab are more scary?

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Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas by diogenescynic on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:47AM (#19919894)
I think it's intellectually dishonest to compare artificial selection through selective breeding to genetic modification. You simply can't insert an anti-freeze gene from a fish into a tomato through artificial selection.

I don't even really have an issue with GMO, but I find the arguments promoting it are often conflating different issues which just seems to muddy the debate and in my opinion seems to create more distrust.

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Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas by dominotw on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:50AM (#19919938)
sorry it wasn't a gotcha point. I've heard ppl say that but I could never get a good answer what exactly makes 'genetic modification' more dangerous method vs 'breeding' method.
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