2. As I’ve said I have no dog in the GMO debate but calling GE a “breeding technique” is introducing blatant propaganda into a scientific discussion. Here is where I think GMO critics have a very valid point.
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just curious, if genetic engineering is not a breeding technique, what is it? also curious how the term "breeding technique" is propaganda.
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For the first, ask Dr. Folta who also doesn’t like the term. For the second: It is a scientifically inaccurate description used by GMO advocates to argue their case.
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There are many different ways to modify a genome. Traditional breeding, marker assisted selection, chemical mutagenesis, cell fusion, rDNA technology, gene editing... if I needed a term for all of those together, breeding techniques seems a decent one.
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It’s hard to believe that anyone would make the argument that there is no real difference between classical plant breeding and the myriad of techniques used today to genetically engineer plants. It’s sophistry, and thus propaganda, whether deliberate or not.
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There are differences between all of those methods of changing an organism's genome, but they are all still methods to change an organism's genome.
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Okay we are going around in circles. Making changes in the genome is not the definition of classical plant breeding. I can’t be more clear, really, but I object to attempts to obfuscate what is being done.
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Ok, so if "classical plant breeding" doesn't change the genome then how does plant breeding work? Like, what is being changed?
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I did not say that classical plant breeding does not change the genome. I am having the same issues now with you that I had with David Gorski. Please have an honest discussion about this. Modern genetic engineering uses entirely different methodologies.
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You said "Calling GE a “breeding technique” is introducing blatant propaganda into a scientific discussion." So that's what I'm curious to get at. When you say "modern genetic engineering" do you mean rDNA technology?
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He doesn't know. That much is obvious.
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