I won't put chemicals into my body.

[Mangetout]

@CurtC

That’s true, but there is a method of breeding that causes effects that could never occur in nature, is in the foods we eat and are accepted by the “all natural” types. It’s where the seed is bombarded with radiation or exposed to mutagenic chemicals, in order to damage the DNA. Then they grow the plant and see if anything good happened. I think that’s a pretty good refutation of the anti-GM fear.

Radiation or chemical-induced mutations can and do happen in nature, the only difference with the artificial method is that it is done on a comparatively large scale to increase the probability of interesting or useful results.

[jabiru]

@Anne Neville

Absolutely. I’m utterly terrified of needles (and of doctors), and even I went in and got a tetanus shot, because tetanus is so scary and the bacteria are everywhere.

But Clostridium tetani is natural. What’s not to like?