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by CodiePetersen 2567 days ago
AGREED. Upvoted.

I'm pro GMO, the science is very sound and uses techniques directly from nature to modify plants, so it's not like we are making something that can't shouldn't exist. But I've always said, its our addiction to the pesticides and soil neglect that is far more harmful than any of these approved GMOs are going to pose.
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objektif 2567 days ago
How can you be so sure that new GE food is perfectly fine? Our digestive system is incredibly complex and we may not be able to know the specific interactions that is going on inside our bodies.
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CodiePetersen 2567 days ago
Yeah its also incredibly adaptive. You hardly know any specific interaction with anything you come into contact with on a daily basis, doesn't mean you hide in a bubble your whole life. The body deals with things as they come at it, thank evolution or we would have been extinct long ago. Every time our species moved to a new region we were introduced to completely new foods. GMOs are tiny variants of what we are already used to. I'm sure we'll do fine.

I'm curious to know though. What specific complexity are you worried about disrupting.

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