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    Re: Brave new world of genetic editing for reptiles-

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    Humanity would be dead if it wasn’t for GMO’s. That term has unfortunately become primarily a marketing term. In reality almost all of our food has been genetically modified to resist disease/pest and/or have higher yield. For example strawberries are gmo as they exhibit extreme polyploidy to produce larger fruit. Seedless watermelons are produced by instigating aneuploidy. Many grains are altered to produce more and be resistant to pest and environmental changes. There’re a ton of examples, way too many to list. The people that claim not to eat any gmo’s are completely ignorant as that’s not even possible in this day and age. Even commonly eaten vegetables are “man made” through selective breeding and genetic alteration. This means that even organic vegetables are still technically genetically modified.


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    I realize there are many sides to this...and as someone already said, the "best use" sure isn't about making albino lizards, but they have to start somewhere.
    I'm far from being "anti-science" & I was acquainted with a man (retired scientist) who worked on seedless watermelons way back when...(he has since passed away).

    I'm actually really glad to have your knowledgeable input on this...it's not my field, unless you count "caring about nature" & "loving to eat"?

    When it comes to food crops, I also know that the national & worldwide goals of "not running out" in the face of climate or pest issues is pretty important & the more crowded
    we allow our planet to get, the more we have to rely on science to bail us out. I'm old enough to appreciate slower times when farmers could work with nature & grow
    organically rather than dominating the process with chemicals & patented GMO seeds. While this yields a lot more, it also tends to result in monocultures (less diversity)
    that actually puts the whole system at risk, not to mention that the farming run-off is causing massive die-offs in our natural bodies of water....I hope we humans can
    figure it all out in time.

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