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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
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.  |
I use fresh tomatoes. Don't bother with the processed stuff.
Despite what the anti-GMO radicals want you to believe, there is a lot of research, independent and otherwise, done on GMOs.
A gene is a gene. What matters is what that gene does, and the chemical make-up of the resulting product.
Remember I spoke about poisoned cows in the other thread? poisoned by hybrid, non-GMO grass. A lot of food plants already contain a lot of poisonous chemicals. We have people dying from casava poisoning here om a fairly regular basis. Cross-breeding these plants may lead to enhancing this. Direct genetic modification allows you to take what you want from one breed and discard all the negatives.
Not all GM is done cross-species. In fact, that's harder than simply splicing genes from the same species.