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"science" (4.00 / 3)

It bothers me when people use the term "science" to describe the kind of haphazard engineering practice that is associated with GMO product development. I've had the misforune of working with plenty of crappy, poorly trained engineers. The story above seems familiar: hack on it until it appears to work and then try and sell it. I agree that this approach is completely unacceptable for our food crops.

The comment "hasn't killed us yet" is pathetic. There a huge difference between selective breeding and splicing in a gene for a pesticide found in an unrelated species. As Natasha points out, genes do a lot of things and never act alone. I approve of GMO's for research purposes, but we shouldn't be eating them. GMO's should not be patentable because they should never be "products."

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by: Mark Wallace @ Sat Jun 06, 2009 at 01:42:22 AM CDT