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mk · 4375 days ago · link · · parent · post: Leading Environmental Activist’s Blunt Confession: I Was Completely Wrong To Oppose GMOs
I think a lot of folk probably worry more about the health concern, but IMO that is a far lesser threat. There are also unintended effects that GMO can have on other flora/fauna. Making a crop resistant to a certain fungus or parasite can have unintended effects upon the greater ecosystem. For example, the fungus could then be driven to adapt to eat the GMO, and at the same time gain the ability to wreck havoc on local flora. Everything in an environment is connected, and it’s almost impossible to change one thing without a ripple effect. GMO can be like turning up the setting on one knob in the ecosystem to 10.Thank you for the explanation, is this the reason that most detractors give?