Comments by "boz" (@BOZ_11) on "Памела Рональд: В защиту генной модификации нашей пищи" video.

  1. highlighting a lack of scientific literacy does not undermine the risks with GMO. There is no clinical testing of GMO foodstuffs whatsoever and the FDA have said it is the manufacturer’s responsibility to ensure that GMO products are safe for mass public consumption; it's set-up for corruption. To say all future GMO's are safe is rather like saying all future drugs are safe. Well, it really depends. I would like to see at least a year's worth of clinical trials for any new GMO being pushed to market. Those who advocate none are essentially misanthropes.
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  2. Nobody has ever stood in the way of plant breeding or grafting. We have been using said techniques for roughly 10,000 years; the effort to conflate GMO (whose first harvests were in the 1990's) with millennia old plant breeding is utterly disingenuous. Nature takes care of the configuration when grafting or plant breeding but when corporate scientists splice individual genes in a foodstuff then release it to market without adequate health and safety testing, it effectively turns the human population into guinea pigs. Another reason GMO's are potentially dangerous is because of the patent situation. As soon as you start patenting food, you necessarily exclude the poorest 50% of the earth's population, the majority of which are hovering on or below subsistence. The reports of higher nutrition and increased yields have not been demonstrated, and often are no better than their conventional crop counterparts. Let the corporations play their stupid patent wars with software, electronics, engineering, etc but we can't allow them to include food in this. The most basic of needs.
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  3. Current GMO's are safe; unfortunately, they were tested after their release to market. There is nothing objectionable about testing prior to release, nor does this preclude the need for testing on future products. Would you stop clinical trials of new drugs because the current ones are safe?? If ensuring the public health is a "waste of money" (to paraphrase) you're announcing yourself as a misanthrope
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