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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

HuckleB

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15. There's nothing unnatural about it.

Reply to zalinda (Reply #14)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:50 PM

Mar 2016

That's just marketing via baseless fear mongering. Genes are not unnatural.

You have what amounts to a religious preference. Well, guess what? Kosher and Halal are not mandatory labels, so your desire has no logical justification.

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Good article on GMO labeling. [View all] Eko Mar 2016 OP

If we can't trust ConAg, Nestles, Monsanto - why are we trusting GMO? Even if GMO is "safe"... marble falls Mar 2016 #1

You dont have to. Eko Mar 2016 #2

Because a lot of people don't like it zalinda Mar 2016 #4

Oh, Eko Mar 2016 #5

All you have to do Eko Mar 2016 #6

You kind of have that backwards. progressoid Mar 2016 #7

Ah hell you better not eat apples then. Apples come from grafted trees. yellowcanine Apr 2016 #16

It can happen in nature zalinda Apr 2016 #17

Name that fallacy! HuckleB Apr 2016 #18

No you don't understand the concept of grafting. yellowcanine Apr 2016 #19

Or maybe Eko Mar 2016 #3

It certainly seems like a religion on DU. progressoid Mar 2016 #8

Its not a religion. Its a simple choice. The way I prefer red skins to russetts. Why do some here... marble falls Mar 2016 #9

A choice to believe in something regardless of what science says. progressoid Mar 2016 #10

Just label them for Pete's sake. zalinda Mar 2016 #11

You want labels for one seed development technology, but not all of them. HuckleB Mar 2016 #12

Labeling won't help Pete understand what's in his food. progressoid Mar 2016 #13

No, it will tell me that I need to look up the origin zalinda Mar 2016 #14

There's nothing unnatural about it. HuckleB Mar 2016 #15