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Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Thats a great talking point, but it is BS. Humans have been genetically modifying organsims through selective breeding for millenia. Any animal or plant you eat is nothing like it natural origin.

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stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
When you said “modify the DNA”, I thought you were referring to genetic modification in a laboratory, which is capable of enacting dramatic change in a single generation, including unintentional changes. Selective breeding enacts mild iterative changes over a long period of time, and is therefore much less risky.

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PokerChips@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And they also have plenty of issues.

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- Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And yet, not disastrous.
  
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  - PokerChips@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Sure. The chickens that we get from Costco that can’t walk on their own isn’t disastrous to me. Especially since I don’t eat them.
    
    But I get your point.
    
    The chickens that we’ve modified to not walk on their own have not yet blown up our world so we accept their mutation.
    
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    Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes, the point I was replying to was basically referring to unintended runaway modifications that could be disastrous like horror movie level. Chickens that can’t walk is not runaway because… well they can’t run, lol, so they also can’t breed. If humans died tomorrow, thoses chickens wouldn’t be far off.
    That said, I support lab grown meat research. So we can stop with the chickens that can’t walk. But that won’t save the dogs that can barely breath due to selective breeding.
    
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