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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton is Just Plain Wrong on GMOs [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Nature does a lot of "hybridization" in terms of natural selection when species affect each other by proximity, etc. For the most part this system has achieved balance after thousands of years our many forms of natural life (NATURAL life) affecting each other. Now perhaps even natural selection might be harmed if we allow climate change to dredge up DNA and other biological remnants of ages many centuries or even millenia past to enter our current environment through the ice sheets melting, etc. But that again is where we upset the balance with human actions that are putting the delicate balance of earth's life in jeopardy.
We aren't GOD!
Let me repeat that, in case Monsanto still has that sense of being that seems to spread to whomever it chooses to buy for its services.
WE AREN'T GOD!
We don't know what will happen with the many variants of effects this GMO-altered life will have on our planet. That is precisely why we have in the past had controlled experiments where we CONTAIN its effects to keep it from affecting the environment around us. GMO "experiments" ARE affecting the whole planet. And if we get it wrong by making critical mistakes, WE ALL DIE!
As I said before. At least with immunizations, etc. and the science that goes there, we can control who we expose these vaccines, etc. to and can pull back from affecting the planet in general if we find that those getting the vaccines have severe and potentially contagious side effects.
With hybrids, you aren't spraying in the air unnatural DNA not found in nature that can forever change the life species it effects that it contacts. You are far less likely to screw up our system the way nature itself might change it through natural activities of the life around us.