I think there's a reason nature doesn't allow a frog to breed with a plant.
You can call it a scare tactic... but with GMOs we're doing things that would be impossible to try with traditional methods.
You can call it a scare tactic... but with GMOs we're doing things that would be impossible to try with traditional methods.
I can, because that's exactly what the software development analogy is: a scare tactic that relies on ignorance of how the alternatives would work if looked at the same way.
There is no method available for crop development that is analogous, in the manner that things were framed upthread, to good software development. (And there won't ever be, unless, through experience with the use of the gene editing tools we have now, we develop much better tools.)
> but with GMOs we're doing things that would be impossible to try with traditional methods.
With "traditional" (which mostly means non-GMO -- the methods that fall under that label now are often as new, or newer, than the GMO methods) methods we are also doing things which would be impossible with the traditional methods available before the time when we started doing GMO.
That's not really surprising, the advance of technology usually involves doing things impossible with earlier technology.
DNA, and nature, is a mess.