George DornApr 19, 2017

There's about as much evidence that GMOs are harmful or dangerous as there is evidence that vaccines cause autism or evidence that climate change isn't happening. Anti-GMO stances are usually poorly-informed knee-jerk responses to fear-mongering, and aren't a good look for those of us interested in ending animal suffering.

http://www.vegangmo.com/blog/vegans-must-march-for-science

(I'm totally down with hating on Monsanto; that's just healthy #anticapitalism.)

#vegan #ProGMO

Show threadStar HazeMay 12, 2017
@gdorn thats a pretty shortsighted analysis. There are more reasons to be wary of GMOs than just the belief that eating one will turn you into godzilla
Show threadGeorge DornMay 12, 2017
@starhaze Such as?
Show threadStar HazeMay 12, 2017
@gdorn unintended side effects of altering an ecosystem via escape of modified species, potential for spread of genes to other species via hybridization
I've got no fears about eating a GMO salmon, I DO have fears about GMO salmon outcompeting natural salmon
Show threadGeorge Dorn

@starhaze While I accept that escapes and outcrossing are unpalatable, I don't accept that they're inherently worse for the environment than any of the other slow-motion disasters we have inflicted on the planet in the last ten thousand years of ever-increasingly intensive agriculture.

Speaking of salmon, our political will to manage wild populations stems mainly from our desire to eat them; the biggest risk AquAdvantage poses is freeing us from that burden.

May 14, 2017 at 8:56amWeb
Show threadStar HazeMay 14, 2017
@gdorn I'm not sure that "introducing new variables onto the calculus of the ecological web overnight won't be THAT bad because we already fucked everything up" is a compelling argument.
Show threadStar HazeMay 14, 2017
@gdorn and let me tell you, invasive species are much worse than most other things we've done. Log the ash tree or of existence in one area and we can bring in saplings from another. Release the EAB into a previously stable ecosystem and we're now looking at no more ash on the continent