The great thing about the DIYbio movement is the possibility for diversity. If you are worried about eating transgenic foods you don't need to lobby your congress critter for mandatory labeling or write a RO1 grant to do a placebo controlled human study. Thanks to groups like this and cheap/open source hardware that is becoming available, you can test the food yourself. Build a thermocycler and test for the presence of the CP4 EPSP synthase gene in your food.
I might think you are silly for worrying about the insertion of a single transgene when traditional breeding does orders of magnitude more mucking about with the genome, but it doesn't matter what I think if you have the power to take your food into your own hands.
On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 1:45:55 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Cline wrote:
-- I might think you are silly for worrying about the insertion of a single transgene when traditional breeding does orders of magnitude more mucking about with the genome, but it doesn't matter what I think if you have the power to take your food into your own hands.
On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 1:45:55 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Cline wrote:
On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 3:57:20 AM UTC-7, Dan wrote:genetic engineering has been consistently shown to be a perfectly safe technology.
There are no long term studies which prove genetically engineered food products are safe. Your statement is a dangerous one. "Long term" is defined in relative terms to a human lifespan which is what it would require for a proper medical study today. Science can't even decide simple questions, such as, to what degree sugary drinks are harmful to health. It's naive to think that sweeping changes in agriculture are harmless by default when science is not yet anywhere close to fully understanding microbes in the human gut. Science has no idea what happens when people eat genetic engineered product other than that they seem to not die quickly afterwards. That adjective phrase "perfectly safe" is a ridiculous assumption. DIYbio groups especially should be more clued-in to the political/economic biases of science which might make such statements seem plausible.
Note. I am not anti-GE. I am anti-"just be naive and hope for the best and when it all turns bad just deny any knowledge or involvement".
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