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?
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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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If we're going to criticise this stuff, I think we should be very careful and explicit in what we're criticising.
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I am being very precise. I am criticising the hubris of abandoning the scientific method and the test of time in favor of projected gain.
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Saying things with expected longitudinal payoffs spanning centuries is safe based on present understanding is unscientific, hubristic.
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We already rely upon industrial farming, with its numerous relatively recent processes and innovations. We're a long way down this road.
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And the resultant fragility of our food supply is well-documented. I am not saying abandon research, but replacing one risk with a greater?
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