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PostPosted: Dec 12th, '15, 08:10 
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How is it that this idea keeps getting spread around, that GMO's are the same as selective breeding? :dontknow:


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earthbound wrote:
How is it that this idea keeps getting spread around, that GMO's are the same as selective breeding? :dontknow:


I still see cross breeding as modifiying the genetics, otherwise it'd just be cloning where the genetics don't change. I know a few will disagree with that, but I think that's mostly because the term has been demonised, and it creates a knee jerk reaction.

Google and Wikipedia both disagree with me though.

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A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques (i.e. genetically engineered organism). GMOs are the source of medicines and genetically modified foods and are also widely used in scientific research and to produce other goods.The term GMO is very close to the technical legal term, 'living modified organism', defined in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which regulates international trade in living GMOs (specifically, "any living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology").


And from more googling, I want me some of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish

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Colum Black-Byron wrote:
I still see cross breeding as modifiying the genetics, otherwise it'd just be cloning where the genetics don't change. I know a few will disagree with that, but I think that's mostly because the term has been demonised, and it creates a knee jerk reaction.


Actually it's what pro GMOers like to use to muddy the waters in the debate by arguing semantics.. All genes are modified during sexual reproduction.. :dontknow:

It's like saying that you want to call a 'motorbike' a 'bicycle' instead because it has two wheels. Yes they both have two wheels but they are very different things and there's a correct term for each one. You can't park your kawasaki in the bicycle rack, you shouldn't ride it on the footpath or in the bike lane, you can't take it on the train with you, and if you take it to the bicycle shop for repairs they will laugh at you. A motorbike is a motorbike and a bicycle is a bicycle even though they are both two wheeled forms of transport..

But man I want to take my kawasaki on the train, it's just a bicycle with a motor in it... No, it's a motorbike.... And you can't ride your bicycle on the freeway trying to claim it's a motorbike without it's engine... :)


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