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In reply to the discussion: Total Ban On GM Corn in France Follows Popular Opposition [View all]FarrenH
(768 posts)You do realise that every single bit of organic food you eat is genetically modified by human intervention, over thousands, or in the case of many popular foods like the Hayward cultivar of Kiwi fruit, less than a hundred years?
Do you think there is some magical process that makes conventional selective breeding or mutation breeding any different from genetic modification in a lab? Because no, its all just modified DNA. And our criteria for the entirety of human history for safety has been millions (or in the modern era, billions) of people have eaten this for decades with no obvious problems, so until compelling reason to re-examine the issue arises, we're fine with it.
If you can't show us the long-term longitudinal studies for every cultivar of conventional carrot or rice, you're not presenting a rational argument to distrust a particular GMO, you're just demonstrating an inability to evaluate risk rationally and consistently.