The Impossible Burger has the taste of beef, but with less environmental damage… but it's #GM/#GMO so FotE hate it: usat.ly/2xR45wv
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Many reasons to be skeptical of GMO are concordant with reasons to be concerned about climate change/environmentalism, though.
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The industrialists also assured us we had nothing to worry about, environmentally. I don't buy the evidence-of-absence-of-risk 'science'.
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There are a number of reasons to be concerned about GM, yes, but the environmental groups tend to unhelpfully blend them together.
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Unhelpful in what sense? It's an environmental issue in the same way as monocultures, but with more severe ramifications.
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That's very frequently not what they play on, though - they know people won't listen, so they hint around health and safety.
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That's also an issue. Mind you, I think most environmentalist orgs are trash, but the health concerns are very real.
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Sure, we should be careful, but there's a huge amount of evidence that the crops in use are safe.
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This sort of evidence is pointless. It takes one single reproducible instance of harm to disprove it. Health is longitudinal, GMOs young.
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And yet that one case has yet to happen..? That's all the proof we have of the safety of at least most things, isn't it?
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Yeah, except those things are centuries old. It's taken centuries for climate change to manifest visibly. So what?
This exact same line of reasoning is why the world runs on fossil fuels. Look where it got us.
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We have choice between something that we know causes a lot of harm and something that, best evidence suggests, causes less harm.
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So we keep researching it until what exactly? We understand genetics 100%..?
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We just don't fuck ourselves over completely in the arrogant assumption that we understand what we've created. But we will anyway, so meh.
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