Why is this very low curb something that GMO apologists fall all over themselves to trip over?
Old school hybridization is CLEARLY different in important and fundamental ways from the kind of GMO manipulations that are done today.
What you seem to be asking is: are the important and fundamental differences a result of the techniques themselves?
I don't know, and that's irrelevant. There are important and fundamental differences that are a result of what's done, not how it's done. Genetic modification is used to do things that CAN'T be done in nature... in fact, that seems to be rather the point of it all :-)
The concern that seems to go ignored and unaddressed is the fact that once these changes are released into the wild, there is no containment and no "undo". This affects me and everyone else on the planet in ways that, frankly, I don't consent to and you have NO right to inflict on me.
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Date: 2009-01-27 08:45 am (UTC)Old school hybridization is CLEARLY different in important and fundamental ways from the kind of GMO manipulations that are done today.
What you seem to be asking is: are the important and fundamental differences a result of the techniques themselves?
I don't know, and that's irrelevant. There are important and fundamental differences that are a result of what's done, not how it's done. Genetic modification is used to do things that CAN'T be done in nature... in fact, that seems to be rather the point of it all :-)
The concern that seems to go ignored and unaddressed is the fact that once these changes are released into the wild, there is no containment and no "undo". This affects me and everyone else on the planet in ways that, frankly, I don't consent to and you have NO right to inflict on me.