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>disguises the fact that selective breeding is also a mechanism for modifying the genes of the plant or animal.

It does not disguise that fact, as that is not a fact. Selecting genes is not modifying genes.

>in most cases the fear that most people have is simply due to their ignorance and susceptibility to clever propaganda.

How do you know? One could just as easily say the same ignorance and propaganda is behind people shilling for multinational agricorps by thinking it makes them "pro-science". The amount of falsehoods promoted by "pro-science" people is tremendous, and "GMOs would save the planet" is one of them.




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