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uoaei on Feb 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. food additives banned in Europe

There's a difference between phenotypic and genotypic modifications.

aperson_hello on Feb 21, 2023 [–]

Neither is "natural"

And a whole lot of fruit is genotypically modified as well through various means!!

uoaei on Feb 23, 2023 | [–]

Well, phenotypic selection is natural in the inevitable, Darwinian sense. Genotypic selection is not because "nature" can't observe genes directly, only their expressions.

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