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Originally Posted by Riot
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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Do you care at all what kind of food you eat??
Again, those who do, should be able to be given
the choice to decide if it is an issue to them or not.