The lack of scientific understanding here is stupifying. No animal genes are spliced to plant DNA to make GMO. Selective breeding and grafting are considered GMO. The amount of misinformation being passed off is laughable pseudoscience. Check books ppl not the internet, where anyone can upload anything unchecked. Brush up on biology too
Your misinformed defense of your opinion about GMOs is puzzling to me as you seem well informed about other subjects.
Genetic modification means exactly that. You are modifying the genes that affect how a plant or animal grows. When you selectively breed plants or animals you are not modifying their genes but selecting the genetic expressions that you prefer and breeding those particular plants or animals with their mates that exhibit the same favourable traits to reinforce those expressions and produce offspring that are more likely to exhibit the same. All those genes were already there, often as recessive genes, but by repeatedly choosing those traits they will after some generations become dominant traits. This is how wolves eventually became the thousands of dog species we have today. These types of genetic drift can happen in nature but in the wild if it is not advantageous to the species it dies out and does not beget more of the same. Imagine how long a pekinese born into a wolf pack would last. It would be a Scoobie snack long before it matured enough to breed and pass on that particular trait. Nature is cruel but it's cruelty has a purpose. Improving the ability of an organism to survive in it's environment.
With GM, genes from totally unrelated species are spliced in to get a result that could never happen in nature as they weren't present in the parent creatures. For example Bt corn which is over 90% of the commercial corn grown in the US used for cereals, animal feed and methanol production to name a few. Genes from a bacteria known as Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki that is deadly to caterpillars and others of that family were spliced into corn genes so any corn worm that chomped down on the roots or any other part of the plant would suffer a painful death.
There is no possible way that those genes could ever become part of corn DNA in nature. After a couple of decades the pests have become resistant to that bacteria nd are ravaging corn crops all over the world just as weeds have become resistant to the glyphosate in Roundup and are now known as Frankenweeds that grow to enormous sizes compared to their previous size and have rendered millions of acres of farmland useless for cultivation. Mon$atan in their infinite wisdom is countering that with a cocktail of herbicides that includes glyphosate and good old Agent Orange that worked so well in the Vietnam war to denude vast forests to expose and poison the enemy and anyone else exposed to it. Hundreds of US military personnel were crippled by it and court cases are still pending against Mon$atan and the government of the US over compensation for their injuries.
For anyone to say that pot has been genetically modified for decades or longer obviously doesn't have a clue.
