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Right, so we all need to sit down and discuss the ethics of what companies do to make a product, but God forbid we bring up the ethics of performing abortions! *rolls eyes*

I’ll avoid any snarky comments about having quadruple the pleasure with this setup.

If real think how much of Flint’s cash she could demand for a photo spread.

Daaaamn!  Sign me up as being a solid supporter of GE milk, based on that billboard alone!

Yeesh.  Don’t these “people” understand the concept of “unintended consequences”?

OK. So you got a bunch of snarky comments and one that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. I know a thing or two about genetics. Here’s my take.

First off. I don’t really worry about consuming this stuff. It’s all protein and fat and water and our systems should take it (omitting the ole you never know argument). However, ethics and environment are a different subject. Let’s split this in two. Animal and vegetable.

Animal/ethics - I’m agin’ it. I’m not really keen on developing oversized cows that are so huge they can’t even walk and lead totally miserable lives. I know the chicken I eat is already growing up in rotten conditions, but that doesn’t mean we should just cut loose and create legless bags of meat.

Vegetable/environment - I’m agin’ it agin. Take corn for instance. Let’s say you clone a gene for pesticide resistance into corn and then plant it in a field. That corn’s seed can easily escape the confines of the field and maybe cross with wild strains. This corn has an unnatural evolutionary advantage (sorry for using that word. I’m a democrat. I know how you republicans recoil at even the thought of science) Anyway, now this super corn can spread to wild strains of corn and out compete the rest. Suddenly your diversity is shot and when this strain of corn has some kinda disease there is nothing left in reserve to resort to. Diversity in wild populations is very important for continuation of cultivated populations. They have already found genetically modified corn in the middle of Mexico where corn came from. Where all the corn diversity is. Where no GM foods are supposed to be available. This is bad news.

PS. What the hell is Jordan talking about. We talk about the ehtics of performing abortions all the time. It dominates our judicial selections. It drives our voting. It divides us.

You’re working way to hard to grind your particular axe.