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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I don't like the risk they present to natural species.
I don't mind trying them to eat so long as they are proven to be safe, but......
i'd also like to have it set aside as a clear choice, and not mixed with naturaly grown food.
Aside from that... don't care. Just make it optional, and don't screw with the local ecosystems and I'm fine with it.
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THey'd also have to take steps to ensure none of those franksteins ever made it into the wild. For example, the frankinfish farms should be located WELL inland in some flyover state where it has zero chance of making it into the wild.
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It is illusoiry to assume that you can keep natural populations free from seeds with chnaged genes. Even more so when copnsideirng that certain corproations release genetic sample intentionally in order to confront poltiics with new realities. Monsanto even dares to sue farmers in South America that have resisted to buying their genetically modified seeds, when the wind or water have transported such seeds onto "clean fields", Monsanto maintains a whole army of field detectives to detect such infestations and then sue the farmers over - violation of patent rights, and the like. That is criminal behavior. Monsanto also repeatedly let escape - unintentionally of course, we believe everything they say, don'T we - samples of genetically changed crop in Germany after the authorities prhibited them to do it and rejected thair request to be allowed to bring these seeds out in nature. They are gangsters, knowing that once the genie was out of the bottle you cannot get it back into it, that way they hope to make the policy making the laws that they want, becaseu policy-makers then can only react to the aleady altered reality.
You cannot control geneticall chnaged material once it has left the test tube and came into contact with a natural habitat. It will spread, wether you like it or not. It does not matter whether you separate two fields by ten m eters of a thiusand kilometers. Wind, rain, birds, gelogical movement, and more - it all makes sure that the modified seeds will niot stay just on that field where you have brought them out.
That's why I would want to see certain Monsanto managers serving a lifetime sentence in prison.