Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science

[PufPuf23]

13. You are wrong.

The make up of our body is an ecosystem that has evolved.

The article you posted and what you state only proves that you do not nor do not want to understand.

Splicing genes and introducing organisms into an open ecosystem that thrive because they there is no incremental evolved response is analogous to introducing foreign organisms into an ecosystem where there is no competition, immune response or the like.

The introduced organism thrives initially but there can be unintended or unexpected negative effects.

An example is the introduction of the potato into Europe and how the potato fueled the Industrial Revolution followed by the Potato famine. Other examples are for all intents and purposes losing the eastern white pine and American chestnut, the two monarchs of the primeval forest of the USA, because of diseases introduced from nursery stock (and the subsequent failure of 75 years of plant breeding programs and genetic engineering to restore these trees to our forests). Similarly we are now losing Port Orford cedar to a root disease carried by nursery stock and vehicles. These were unintended results of plant breeding. Ecological science is rife with examples of foreign species introduced with unintended consequences. Other examples of what appeared to be miracle technology are substances such as DDT and 245T. These are the types of problems that can arise without the power of genetic engineering. Ooops.

Genetic engineering is an incredible and highly useful technology especially in closed ecosystems.

The types of gene splicing done in genetic engineering would not occur in nature and the very fact of the extreme potential usefulness over a short time frame is evidence of the potential power.

GMO food plants are highly productive in themselves and all so because they out compete and displace what otherwise would be termed as "weeds" (a plant out of place). The corporate GMO crops increase the production of harvestable crop but decrease overall primary productivity and reduce the amount of carbon in the soil.

I never said that genetic modification is wrong in fact I stated that I support genetic engineering.

However, your posts twist science and ignore real risks and I would posit because of propaganda from corporations wanting money and power.

Genetic engineering is not the "gene splicing" that nature has been doing for billions of years (nature selects and evolves) and that humans have been doing for thousands.