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by stefan_ 1433 days ago
Where are all you people when we invented artificial fertilizer and grew the human population by 5 billion in 100 years?

Yet here we are with concern trolling over absurd scenarios where the well-meaning genetic scientist "inserts" a gene and produces some kind of killer organism. Meanwhile evolution is just out there rolling the dice every time.

> See, the problem is that nothing on earth really is (at least as far as we can tell) meant to be cross bred between completely different species of plant/animal; or plants with animals...

Everything is crossbred! You are made out of all imaginable crosses! We subsumed mitochondria!