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Kavin Senapathy
Apr 4
Kavin Senapathy ‏@ksenapathy
"I don't want @ArcticApples. How will we know if they're rotten?" Common misconception! pic.twitter.com/nyWPvsfUu7
Jodi Koberinski
Apr 4
Jodi Koberinski ‏@JodiKoberinski
@ksenapathy @ArcticApples we can make apples resist browning when sliced: dip in lemon juice. A silly use of invasive tech
Big Smiffy
Apr 5
Big Smiffy ‏@Bigsmiffy438
@JodiKoberinski @ksenapathy @ArcticApples We don't know what that would do to our DNA though! No lemon safety testing ever done!
Jodi Koberinski
Apr 5
Jodi Koberinski ‏@JodiKoberinski
@Bigsmiffy438 @ksenapathy @ArcticApples safety testing in diet? Thousands of years of experimentation, refinement.
Kavin Senapathy
Kavin Senapathy – ‏@ksenapathy
@JodiKoberinski @Bigsmiffy438 there haven't been thousands yrs of testing for hybrids, mutagenics, marker assisted breeding.
10:05 AM - 5 Apr 2015
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Jodi Koberinski
Apr 5
Jodi Koberinski ‏@JodiKoberinski
@ksenapathy @Bigsmiffy438 which is why skeptical of these technologies + encourage open-pollinated breeding :) mutagenics esp bad idea imho
Jodi Koberinski
Apr 5
Jodi Koberinski ‏@JodiKoberinski
@ksenapathy @Bigsmiffy438 some of these techniques could be useful to elucidate processes- doesn't mean we ought to eat the results.
Jodi Koberinski
Apr 5
Jodi Koberinski ‏@JodiKoberinski
@ksenapathy @Bigsmiffy438 deep concerns from nutritional community that hybridization cost us nutrients to get uniformity, size, comm specs

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