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Old 11-08-2012, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Sightseek View Post
Do you care at all what kind of food you eat??


Again, those who do, should be able to be given the choice to decide if it is an issue to them or not.
I eat very well, and everything I eat - and you eat - is already genetically modified, and has been for centuries. You or I cannot name one non-genetically modified foodstuff in our diets. I certainly cannot think of one.

Of course I care about the nutritional quality of what I eat, but the public panic over genetic modification stems more from public ignorance of genetics, than any actual factual concerns, in my observation.

The fear is over the words "genetically modified" - not over any factual thing that genetic modification has done. It's a scary term that Americans, who are bereft of any basic genetic class in high school, simply don't understand.
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