#GMO Cats, in particular, have never been tested for safety. @neiltyson
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@drugmonkeyblog@neiltyson They should be labelled or banned!#GMO
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@neiltyson yeah but how many years of cross breeding would it take to get Alaskan flounder genes into strawberries?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@Dunwich_Type No amount of selective breeding is equivalent to injecting DNA from one organism into another. -
@TiroTypeworks really? How about Ligers? Tigons? Just to name a few cross-species breeds. Some plants can too. -
@geoKarlie Lions & tigers are the same genus; cross breeding them is very different from directly modifying genes at the cellular level.
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@neiltyson All species are genetically modified beings, if you put it like that. -
@odradek1@neiltyson Humans do not practice selective breeding the way we do with animals. Humans breed for love, and the desire of family -
@D4u2s0t@odradek1@neiltyson generally but not always -
@TheKirkness@odradek1@neiltyson Agreed. There are exceptions, like most circumstances I couldn't fit it in my 1st tweet :-) -
@D4u2s0t@TheKirkness@odradek1@neiltyson the exceptions are many thought not slight chance happenings
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@neiltyson@geneticmaize Yeah but it's never really been about just the name, has it? -
@AgroBioDiverse@neiltyson Considering that there's not any meaningful diff between natural and lab gene swapping, it's really just a name. -
@geneticmaize@neiltyson The really important doubts are not the ones about process but the ones about governance, strategy, efficacy -
@geneticmaize@neiltyson They may or may not be valid doubts, but it needlessly belittles the doubters to say it's just about the name -
@AgroBioDiverse@neiltyson To me the prob is saying that "GE" as a category caused x when GE is just a breeding tool.
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@neiltyson how many of them evolved the ability to be drenched in pesticidesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson surprised 2 see that argument from you. The term GMO refers to organisms produced using recombinant DNA techniques, not breeding. -
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@MassaOrganics@neiltyson To be fair, GMO is a horrible term for the problem at hand. Far better would be "commercially modified organism" -
@fatemehx2@neiltyson True. GMO is an artifact. GE is better term. I'm just tired of imprecise arguments from people who should know better.
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