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In reply to the discussion: U.S. GMO food labeling bill passes Senate [View all]Silent3
(15,211 posts)What is it about genetic manipulation that's fundamentally more scary than mixing foods that haven't been mixed before?
No matter how many foods you've mixed before that have never been mixed before, that tells you nothing about what risks might be hidden in all the combinations which haven't been tried.
You clearly think the analogy is bad. I made it knowing you would think it's bad. But can you clearly explain what you think is the fundamental difference in risk? Why are new random mutations that occur naturally all of the time less scary? Why are new combinations of genes via gene splicing scarier than horizontal gene transfers that happen in nature from bacteria and viruses?
Because "nature" is fundamentally trustworthy, but people who might be hoping to make money are so fundamentally suspicious that even when doing things very similar (not in laboratory technique, of course, but in end result) are just bound to make it dangerous, somehow lacking some built-in "wisdom" you trust nature has when it does random shit?