The bigger issue isn't people claiming they aren't selling GE crops but loopholes that are abused to sell them. For instance most of the GE soy is actually banned in Europe for human consumption and that is actually handled very well. More or less nothing does get to your plate.Fotiadis_110 wrote:The main problem with 'tricking' them to make it happen, is not if it can be done, which it can, but how to contain the ones we are tricking to do the job properly, and what ecosystem damage will we do if they get out while we are using it?
Splicing genetics is becoming easier and easier with every half a dozen years or so, as our technology gets better with every iteration, the problem is, while we can make the change, GE is never as simple as we would like.
For instance: GE modified crops are now contaminating most of the worlds soy-bean production and i believe it's the soy-beans who had an added toxin for pest control, which is also rendering the soil poisonous to other living animals like worms and similar which actually improve plant and soil health.
GE is easy.
Containing the change is not so much, particually when people feel they can make a quick buck by selling GE seeds while saying they aren't.
The bigger issue is with the ban being on human consumption. the absolute majority of GE soy is used as food for livestock. And that undergoes none or very little control. So you might be avoiding GE quite a lot even being against it due to it contaminating the ecosystem but there's very few ways of getting away from it, mostly due to the fact that it's used elsewhere.
