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

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139. Genetic modification has been shown to be safe.

Furthermore, the basic science also says it is safe because there is no difference between what humans have been doing for thousands of years and what they now have been doing in the lab. The only difference is that the new techniques have higher specificity in outcome. But when it comes down to it, cross breeding and gene splicing are all about the same thing, introducing new and unique genetic information into a cultivar.

Your casual dismissal of the science does not change those basic facts.

And it is incumbent on the genetic modification deniers to demonstrate their claims with real research just as those who support the science have been doing for decades. Otherwise it is just screeching from the sidelines. The fact is that the research is being done and genetic modification passes muster. Some people still don't like that fact so they have to deny the science by bleating from the sidelines and deny that the science is doing what it has always done, validate nature.

If you make a claim that genetic modification is somehow a bad thing, than it is up to you to demonstrate that claim. There is no such research that passes peer review muster. Until there is, the GM deniers have nothing.

That may sound tough but that is how it works. In other words, if one thinks that GM is bad, put up or shut up. Show everybody the science by citing good science. One doesn't get to just make stuff up here.

My best to you.