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Originally Posted by Uncarved
Right now it is very hard to distinguish between any of the different type of GMO foods, and have no idea what is getting blended together. Why should someone that has an allergy to fish have to worry about eating a banana, when all the label says is "Banana".
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Because that is not happening, its another well played urban legend because it was suggested we try to take a gene from a cold water fish to help strawberries survive frost better. Not to mention allergen potential is strictly regulated and would not be allowed past FDA trials. Mind you this is a big focus by scientists in GM science, is to be very careful of genes that pose allorgen issues, right now everyone is hyper aware of this in the research side.
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I think a lot of people are slightly uneducated on the matter and lump all the GMO products together. I currently limiting my intake of GMO's, until there is proper labeling and being to figure out what you are really getting in your food, a lot of times you don't even know that it is GMO food.
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And that's fine, I have no fears of what is currently available, these crops have all been researched up and down for decades. The problem is people don't realize that on a molecular level these crops are often nearly identical IF NOT identical to their non GMO counterparts, so thats where I wonder why people worry about safety when the changes made are so minuscule that it goes beyond any logic that this would be enough to harm you in any way.
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Another beef as mentioned above would be that Monsanto's have managed to put a patent on living things, which should not have ever been able to be done.
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They are patenting things they have spent 100's of millions of dollars in research, these processes and new GMOs are actually combined and made in a lab, why should they not be patented?
And in real world practice, the biotech firms routinely offer their patents for free to help in situations like the golden rice project, projects in Africa, and things like the virus resistant Papaya in Hawaii which saved their Papaya industry because of a University that with help of biotech firms created this wonderful GMO Papaya.
Not saying there isn't a real discussion about how much can we actually patent, what should never be allowed, etc.. This is worth discussing, but again it gets lost in the anti GMO rhetoric. As usual the noise from them has some truth blended in with lots of bad science, dishonesty and fear mongering.
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