Kurgan wrote:
We've genetically modified our food for thousands of years; we just didn't know about DNA until after WWII.
Utterly false comparison.
For hundreds of years, we used NATURAL methods to make new strains of plants and animals. If nature didn't support the end result, it wasn't viable.
GMOs deliberately tinker with DNA in ways we don't know if nature would allow, and we don't know how they will long-term affect the biosphere.
Many hybrid strains of plants will die off without regular cultivation and maintenance...because they don't grow well or repopulate and maintain their specialized status without intervention. GMOs can actually dominate indigenous crops and contaminate land for hundreds of miles because their traits make them dominant over indigenous plants.