
11-08-2012, 07:14 PM
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Flemington
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Gonesville
Posts: 11,422
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Riot
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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It's OK just to shut up once in a while. 
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