"Genetically engineered products are an abomination of God's creation"

[LTX]

38. I don't care what you choose to eat. But you are advocating a position

that attempts to outlaw (or at the least regulate into unavailability) what others choose to eat. And you are doing so on the alleged basis that the "genes" in those foods have been improperly manipulated.

Yet curiously, you don't offer any rational distinction between "proper" and "improper" gene manipulation, and you assiduously avoid the fact of your own consumption of radically modified foods.

Instead, you offer only the rather bizarre notion that the foods you choose to eat "have only been under cultivation for a hundred or more years." Are you joking with that? Do you think wheat was genetically unchanged from its moment of speciation to 1914?

For crying out loud, where do you think contemporary bananas (perhaps the most singularly, genetically manipulated concoction we have yet to create) came from? Hell, they aren't even really classifiable. Or the beef, chicken, pork, tomatoes, wheat, squash, apples, pears, peaches, etc. etc. that you regularly consume? Did they come into their current iteration in the last hundred years (or did you intend that "hundred or more years" to be an escape clause that lets you push back genetic modifications by 5, 50, or 500 thousand years, give or take)? We (and nature itself) have been radically altering the genetic makeup of every damn thing we put in our mouths for thousands of years. But I suppose the horizontal gene transfer in GMOs are just too darn overt and sciencey to accept, as opposed to the horizontal gene transfer that you otherwise accept without questioning because, well, to put it bluntly, you don't know anything about it.