@ksenapathy Ran into someone insisting that "selective breeding" = GMO meat and after I died laughing I wondered, is this common?

@ksenapathy All of those are GMO.

@kitchenmage It is. Why are you redefining the words scientists use? @ksenapathy

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@KittenKoder @ksenapathy I'm not redefining. I'm asking about it. Never heard it used like that.

@KittenKoder @ksenapathy It was used in the way that most people I know would use "transgenic" not what has been done forever.

@kitchenmage That's probably because you are not in biotechnology. @ksenapathy

@kitchenmage Genetically modified organism is anything that was intellectually altered through any method. @ksenapathy

@kitchenmage We GM ERVs to cure illness, all modern foods are GMO, organic just means life. @ksenapathy

@KittenKoder @kitchenmage Selective breeding of animals isn't referred to as "GMO."

@kitchenmage That's a method, not a classification of organism. @ksenapathy

@ksenapathy Thank you, Kavin. Not sure what fight @KittenKoder thinks is being fought here but it's not.

@ksenapathy To laypeople, that's why you are not scientists. @kitchenmage

@KittenKoder but @kitchenmage knows that. Just asking whether the misconception is common...

@ksenapathy Not to mention, you don't even use organic correctly, every living thing is organic. @kitchenmage

@KittenKoder You are really being needlessly bitchy here. @ksenapathy

@kitchenmage You idiots are attacking a science that saves lives. @ksenapathy

@KittenKoder I asked a question. What do you think I am attacking? I can't even tell WTF your position is. @ksenapathy

@kitchenmage Just because I don't kowtow to the liars? GMOs save millions of lives. @ksenapathy