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Neil deGrasse Tyson Goes to Town on GMO Critics

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EiMitch8/03/2014 1:52:50 pm PDT

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

About “unrelated genes,” how do you think evolution works? Natural selection does nothing without random mutations to select from. Hybridization took the “natural” out of natural selection. Whereas genetic modification takes the “random” out of random mutation.

And yes, like any tool, this can be misused and abused. Blame bad laws and the corporate a-holes enabled by them.

Btw, referring to GMOs as “artificial hybrids” implies that the hybrids we’ve been eating for thousands of years are “natural.” NDT was saying that this isn’t the case. And I agree with him on that.

Edit: ObserverArt already made the same point and I didn’t notice. I need to take a break and unwind. I’m clearly not with it right now.