/sci/ - Science & Math

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- Organic breeding is limited by the slow rate, low spread and low impact of random natural mutations
Every generation is slightly different than the previous, and it takes a very long time to change the ecosystem

- GM technology can be used to alter as many genes as you want, wherever you want, however you want, resulting in totally different unpredictable species, which we release into the wild after 2 years of rat lab tests made my PhD students who smoke weed and don't have a clue or care about the permanent impact on the ecosystem (the only ecosystem we have and need to survive) because they are blinded by scientism and their own interests/career

>B-B-BUT IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME GUISE! YOU'RE JUST A LUDDITE!
Being overly cautious when we have all the time in the universe is not being luddite. It's being smart.

And you're taking all these blind risks just so you can buy potatoes for 10 cents cheaper.
Or to feed Africans so they can breed more, so we have more people starving in 20 years, and then have to take even more risks.
The truth is you don't even care about feeding Africans. Or about cheap potatoes. You don't give a fuck.

Because this debate is not about GMO.
You just want to live in the future prematurely.
And you're willing to risk everything for your sci-fi fantasies.
Scary to think that's the mindset in most of our universities.
I'll be surprised if we don't go extinct before 3000.