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Re: GMO Labeling Bill Passes VT Legislature |
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Posted by 3-9 on Tue May 6 17:58:03 2014, in response to Re: GMO Labeling Bill Passes VT Legislature, posted by Nilet on Tue May 6 17:28:52 2014. Genes are genes. It doesn't matter how they got there.Considering that genes can affect an organism in all kinds of different ways, waving it off is not a good idea, especially when it comes to food allergies. In theory, selective breeding can produce the trait, but in practice, they're inserting genes which are otherwise foreign to the organism. With cross-breeding, at least you can get some forewarning that the trait in one of the potential parents might be undesirable; e.g., a strain of corn is resistant to bugs but it tastes bad and makes a good percentage of the people break out in a rash, early indication that cross-breeding is a bad idea. With GMO, people are perceiving it as less gradual, more hit-or-miss, even though the geneticists say they know what they're doing and the FDA clears the organisms for consumption. It's a combination of fear of the unknown and lack of trust in the government to protect us from that unknown. For me, I don't see the harm in labeling products that are GMO or made with GMO, though I think people are going way overboard with lumping cloning with GMO. |
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