Virtually everything we eat is "genetically modified", and has been for centuries. Every animal, every fruit, every crop.
When you take a tomato, and breed it to produce big tomato fruit - that's "genetically modified".
American Indians developing corn? Selection is "genetically modified".
Cows giving 20 gallons of milk a day? Their genes have been "genetically modified" by breeding selection.
I don't understand why people fear "genetically modified" foods - except they don't know what DNA and RNA are, and the terms are scary?
Or they don't understand how eating DNA and RNA from another animal - like a cow - doesn't turn you into a cow? But they think that eating cow DNA will alter their own DNA and cause cancer? While not understanding the concept of denatured proteins, how your own body treats foreign proteins, etc ....
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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