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GMOs Argument about Genetic Engineering
GMOs Argument about Genetic Engineering
Date: 3/20/2012 12:33:29 PM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 2399 times
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The Core of Lurther Burbank's Work is here:
The crossing of species is to me paramount. Upon it, wisely directed and accompanied by a rigid selection of the best and as rigid an exclusion of the poorest, rests the hope of all progress. The mere cross ing of species, unaccompanied by selection, wise supervision, intelligent care, and the utmost patience, is not likely to result in marked good, and may result in vast harm. Unorganized effort is often most vicious in its tendencies.
One of the arguments that GMO Lovers like to share is that we have been genetically engineering foods for thousands of years. There is a big difference between the invasion by modern tools of Biotechnology and the kind of plant development used by the masters of horticulture.
The intent of men like Luther Burbank, one of our greatest plant developers, was to benefit mankind. His rulebook was trained in the natural development of plants.
He, as Biotech GMO developers, worked with the crossing of species and in selection of traits, however his methods were in harmony with nature, rather than breaking the laws of nature.
This is from the opening pages of "The Training of the Human Plant."
TRAINING OF THE HUMAN PLANT
DURING the course of many years of
investigation into the plant life
of the world, creating new forms, modi-
fying old ones, adapting others to new
conditions, and blending still others, I
have constantly been impressed with
the similarity between the organization
and development of plant and human
life. While I have never lost sight of
the principle of the survival of the fit-
test and all that it implies as an expla-
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TRAINING OF THE HUMAN PLANT
nation of the development and progress
of plant life, I have come to find in the
crossing of species and in selection,
wisely directed, a great and powerful
instrument for the transformation of
the vegetable kingdom along lines that
lead constantly upward. The crossing
of species is to me paramount. Upon
it, wisely directed and accompanied by
a rigid selection of the best and as rigid
an exclusion of the poorest, rests the
hope of all progress. The mere cross-
ing of species, unaccompanied by selec-
tion, wise supervision, intelligent care,
and the utmost patience, is not likely to
result in marked good, and may result
in vast harm. Unorganized effort is
often most vicious in its tendencies.
GENETIC ENGINEERING ARGUMENT
Regulations and Safety
It is nearly impossible to prove a complete absence of danger, so regulatory bodies such as the FDA generally apply the rule of GRAS, or “generally recognized as safe.” This is applied to any food that has been in the human diet for several years without any reports of adverse effects. Novel foods could be classified as GRAS, if they can be shown to be chemically equivalent to a food already classified GRAS. An example of such a foodstock is the now ubiquitous canola oil. A conventional breeding project to modify the rapeseed so as to exclude, or at least dramatically reduce, the levels of the toxic erucic acid that can be pressed from the seeds, led to the generation of canola oil. Since it was not chemically equivalent to rapeseed oil, the individual fatty acids in the makeup of canola oil were compared with those found in soy, corn, sunflower, peanut and olive oils, along with the performance of feeding studies in both humans and animals and searching toxicological databases. In 1987 the FDA concluded it was GRAS.
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