Reply #13: unless you're eating paleolithic foods-- real paleolithic foods, left over...

[mike_c]

...from before the dawn of agriculture, you're eating genetically modified foods. For example, corn is genetically modified teosinte. If you eat fruit, it is almost certainly harvested from cloned cuttings, and has been for many generations. I'm not arguing that's precisely the same thing as modern genetic engineering, but GE is only methodologically different-- the objective, inserting desirable traits into crops or livestock, is pretty much the same objective we've been pursuing since the beginning of agriculture.

There is a lot of hysteria about this issue, and not much real understanding of the technology itself.