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by collyw 4064 days ago
Most of them don't have much understanding of the tech. Interestingly this appeared on my facebook timeline this morning.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150424105348.ht...

I have a friend who likes to parrot out every anti-GM article in the mainstream press. He eventually kind of changed his argument (he is a stubborn bastard who will never admit being wrong), when I asked him:

What is it about targeted gene mutation (as in GM organisms) that you think is so much more dangerous than random gene mutation that occurs in nature?