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In reply to the discussion: U.S. GMO food labeling bill passes Senate [View all]Silent3
(15,212 posts)...that GMOs are dangerous for humans to eat, a fear that goes way beyond an abundance of caution that there's some lurking unknown, to acting as if GMOs are essentially POISON!1!!!!!1!
I'm certainly not arguing that there's no need for any caution, especially for things released into the wild, but random mutations and horizontal gene transfers do occur out there in the wild too, even without human interference, and there's nothing to stop that from happening.
Simple human travel has created similar hazards by moving plant and animal species around the planet into new environments. I'm not saying this is a good thing, of course (some invasive species problems are pretty nasty), just that there's no particular reason to treat possible GMO introduction into the environment as totally new, different, and especially dangerous.
Why aren't people as passionately fearful of travel and shipping?