Re: [DIYbio] Re: I want to test my own food - where do I start

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Cory Tobin <cory.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ultimately, though, I think it will be more useful (but more
> difficult) to judge plants on the functionality of their mutations
> rather than how those mutations arrived. IMO, good traits are good
> traits regardless of whether it came from a lab or cross-breeding or
> HGT. Same for bad traits.
>
> -cory

Thinking about it now, I think this is really a MUCH harder test,
which is why no one wants to talk about it. They all want to assume
change is bad, because there's no way to really validate except
through randomized real-world trials... which takes time, is plagued
by incomplete and bad/incorrect/biased reporting... etc.

If you think about it from a system validation standpoint, what would
you do? For every type of human proteome, for every type of GMO in
production, allow two human clones to live a full life with and
without consuming/being-exposed-to GMOs and evaluate their health and
genetics and epigenetics at many stages throughout life and at death
(comment: or maybe the exposure should be devoted to another clone or
two).

Ok, great, we wrote our test, that should clear things up. Oh, but
actually, we should expand on just iterating through each GMO and
include all non-GMO as well. (and I bet there are a lot more types of
non-GMO food to test)

So applying the best test with the best heuristics really depends on
what you want to capture. Worrying about whether something is good or
bad for you is certainly more interesting than is something is GMO or
not.... especially when there are so many /simple chemicals/ that can
be deadly/horrible contaminants.

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