sweet, maybe they can find a way to make healthy food not taste like shit in my mouth.
No, they did not cross speciate plants and animals, and I never said they did. We haven't even done that really. I pointed out very specifically the domestication of wolves into dogs. Early man is definitely known to have done this. Man did this roughly 15,000 years ago. Then we domesticated plants roughly 10,000 years ago.
All modern dogs are a genetically modified variation of the ancient grey wolf.
We have been eating gene edited food for the last few thousand years.
World's not gonna end
If gene-editing can make fried chicken and french fries be healthy and low calorie, sign me up for gene-edited food!
That claim is outdated and beside the point.
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Can you guarantee that the result is the same?
If so what is the point in the new technique?--When the result is the same...
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No we haven't.
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Indeed, it is not a bad thing but it is something that should be approached with caution in mind, not just with profits.
Check out Heracleum Sosnowskyi / Sosnowsky's hogweed for real world example - weed that makes your skin super-sensitive to ultraviolet light.
The plant was common only in the Caucasus area, until it started to be used as a silage plant in other parts of the Soviet Union. As a result, it quickly spread in many areas of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. It is now a highly invasive plant in the Baltic States, Poland, and Belarus.[6] Many river valleys and roadsides are occupied by large stands of this weed. It is difficult to eradicate because the seeds remain viable for many years and the roots are difficult to remove. Herbicides are widely used in a fight against it, but the plant can later resprout from the roots.[7]
The plant is also used as a shield-hedge along the roads, preventing farm animals from escaping and wild animals from getting in.[3]
The decision to use the plant for silage was made in 1947, under Stalin's rule, so when the species later proved to be highly invasive and difficult to remove, people started to call it "Stalin's revenge".
It was used just for a few years until huge problems were discovered with using it (milk from cows that were fed it got unbearably bitter, and their calfs were getting born with deformities).
It has proven to be impossible to eradicate to this day.
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Cant wait to have chickens as big as cows or strawberrys the size of pumpkins.
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
We'been eating gene edited food since about late civilization.
Apples, tomatoes, peppers, bananas, etc. we're genetically modified via selective breeding in order to get desired traits.
Tomatoes were small and nearly uneatable, bananas were mostly seeds.
This is just a scare based on pure ignorance.
Go eat some wild bananas if you don't want to eat gene edited food.
Awesome. I wonder if they will be able to make a Cow that has all the tenderness and marbling of a Wagyu but en masse.
Over time yes. GMO is just faster. Even then its not a guarantee of a result either.
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The end result is the same the process is just shorter and quicker with GMOs. You can get the same results with just breeding over a long period of time as you do with GMOs.