As far as I know...the difference between hybridization and genetic modification is that hybrids are developed by cross-breeding the plants themselves....whereas.....genetic mods involve
inserting foreign genes from other organisms at the cellular (genetic) level...sometimes these other organisms are bacterial (or other animal) in origin for use in plants. For the FrankenSalmon I guess it's animal to animal.
The people pushing the ...
low-nutrition mass-produced garbage...are the same ones pushing GMOs...but are not the only ones.
You are afraid that GMOs might get a bad name....IMO they deserve a bad name because they have been pushed on people with no serious underlying research on safety. What INDEPENDENT research that has been done doesn't make them look so good.
The OBVIOUS political dealing to push GM foods isn't real comforting either.
If I choose to reduce my consumption of possible GM foods I now need to avoid most processed foods (good idea anyway)...and look at the numbers on the labels on produce.
As an example....I like to use tomato juice/sauce in my "cooking"....so what are my choices? Tomato juice in a large tin can...a no-no due to the acid food leaching out the BPA that coating the can to reduce leaching of cadmium...etc. I go to spagetti sauces.....all have sugar...most have cottonseed/canola/say/corn GMO over refined oils....most are over salted....though this is packaged in glass.
Politics IS a part of any factual discussion. ALL IS INTERCONNECTED. PERIOD.
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Originally Posted by niky
Science doesn't exist in a vacuum. But a factual discussion should exist separate of politics.
Like the way you post stories in a way that paints anything "GMO" bad, as if it were a universal truth.
When the truth is: Crops modified or bred to be resistant to pesticides expose us to more pesticides, which may or may not be bad in varying degrees depending on the food crop and level of exposure.
Going "organic" is a good idea, depending on what food you're switching on, and how much of the pesticide goes into the food, and how bad that pesticide is.
"Genetic Modification" isn't frankenscience. It's simply an extension of the same techniques we've been using for centuries to grow hardier, higher-yielding crops. Just faster. And it has the same pitfalls... namely the higher exposure to pesticides, the lower nutritional yield of over-bred crops, and the increasing overuse of land. But to present this as a new thing and the simple removal of "GMOs" from the food supply as the answer oversimplifies the problem and draws attention away from the real issue: We're eating too much low-nutrition mass-produced garbage.
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