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Debate on GMOs is always funny and tragic because most of the time it is guided by emotions, fear and ignorance. Let me highlight a few facts to debunk some misconceptions.
For centuries, man has improved food production by manipulating crops and animals through breeding. Modern biotechnology has only enabled man to know the structure of the genetic material where the information of any particular traits in an organism is stored. Scientists now know how to multiply these genes in vitro (in the test-tube).
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