@sapinker I'm more concerned that a fish gene in a tomato will express whatever I'm allergic to in fish & make me ill. @Vilsjin @amy_harmon
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@Vilsjin A bite of fish—as little as a tsp of Worcestershire sauce—puts me in hospital. I need to know my food.@sapinker@amy_harmon -
@LisaHendrix Those proteins will hopefully never get transferred to any other organism.@sapinker@amy_harmon -
@Vilsjin@sapinker@amy_harmon Then there's possibility that Roundup sprayed on GMO Roundup Ready crops may do harm http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416 …
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@sapinker More generally; we need evidence-based agriculture based on first principles of ecology and evolutionary biology -
@ErikSvensson what do you suggest? Resistance gene has worked pretty well for papaya. -
@geneticmaize For how long? Are you claiming that the coevolutionary arms race has come to an end for papaya? -
@ErikSvensson of course not. But we get papaya for 21 years and counting. Pretty good, IMHO. -
@geneticmaize 21 years is very short time, evolutionarily speaking. I doubt the effect will last long -
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@geneticmaize Evidence-based agriculture based on principles of ecology and evolutionary biology. Including mixed crops, rotations etc. - 1 more reply
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@sapinker@sdv_duras don't mind a measured GM approach to resist the bacteria, but say 'no thanks' to the anti browning tech -
@mason_mem i was reading that as much though the anti-scientism we've come across recently as the piece itself...
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@sdv_duras @mason_mem "shuttling DNA between species carries no intrinsic risk to human health or the environment" pure scientism -
@hdsncty@sdv_duras we have to go case by needed or most appropriate case -
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@hdsncty i agree, i don't see how using the term 'scientism' helps here... -
@sdv_duras @mason_mem look at the quote within the article, its deployment, merely an example of the pervasive scientism around gmo -
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@sdv_duras https://twitter.com/hdsncty/status/361513546388996096 … from the times article pinker posted - 5 more replies
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