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Originally Posted by AcGold
He brings up artificially selecting desirable traits during cultivation as an example of a GMO and then in less than 5 seconds equivocates it to genetic experimentation in a lab and rhetorically condemns anyone who questions it as someone who questions natural cultivation techniques. I didn't find it particularly intelligent for such a smart guy. He's also wrong about organic apples and he's clearly speaking from assumptions and not experience. Not all GMO is the same, cultivating desirable traits and genetically splicing different species together are entirely different things and the line seems to be blurred.
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Two things:
1. He's correct about Apples. Crab apples are the only apples indigenous and naturally grow able in North America, and wild (in modified apples) are palm size. Red delicious is one of the most modified apples.
2. He responded to those anti-GMO people who didn't like that video. That reaponse can be found in the following link (along with quotes from scientific organisations regarding the safety of GMOs), and I've quoted a bit for you.
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The science is quite clear: crop improvement by the modern molecular techniques of biotechnology is safe … The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the British Royal Society, and every other respected organization that has examined the evidence has come to the same conclusion: consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM crops is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crop plants modified by conventional plant improvement techniques.
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And right now, the evidence is overwhelming that GMO crops are safe for humans and for the environment (and if you're going to bring up glyphosate, Roundup, then that's a different conversation, it's no longer about GMO's). And the evidence that GMO plants are harmful is pitifully weak.
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http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/...ople-get-angry
The whole anti-GMO thing has been compared to anti-evolution and anti-vaccine movements. Low on science, high on outrage.