fubarobfusco comments on Nonmindkilling open questions - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Yvain 23 March 2012 04:23PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 23 March 2012 09:04:15PM 11 points [-]

"Safe" for whom? This could mean several different things:

  • Does eating (a particular) GMO food cause health problems?
  • Does planting (a particular) GMO food crop cause chemical environmental problems, e.g. a chemical expressed by GMO crops causing beneficial insects to die off?
  • Does planting (a particular) GMO food crop cause biological environmental problems, e.g. by becoming an invasive weed?
  • Does planting (a particular) GMO food crop cause economic or governmental problems, e.g. by contaminating adjacent non-GMO fields with pollen from a patented gene line?
  • If GMO crops are very successful in the market, will this lead to crop monocultures that will experience catastrophic failures?

As with "organic food", the halo/horns effect is strong with this one.