You first. You would have to come up with some evidence that the kinds of modifications standard in GMO tech have been standard and prevalent for thousands of years, as you pulled out of your ass and posted.
Failing that, you can acknowledge that your position is fundamentally and essentially dishonest, with no basis in reality except a bogus parallel in vocabulary, and with no role but deception. What possible motive could excuse it?

Originally Posted by
skeptic
GM foods are not released unless and until substantial testing has been completed.
That is obviously false - there hasn't been enough time to complete even minimal testing of most of this stuff.
They just found out - years after release - that the sequestering of atrazine in random parts of the plant (the mechanism of "Roundup Ready" anything) can be reversed in the human gut - that the digestion process in the human small intestine can release the herbicide into the human body. It's also been discovered (it's likely that the corporate scientists knew already) that the atrazine is occasionally sequestered in seeds and other edible plant parts. No one knows if this is serious, affects pregnancy, affects stages of child development differently than the adults tested for atrazine toxicity, etc etc etc. Might be nothing to worry about, might be a public health disaster about to crash on us.

Originally Posted by
skeptic
Genetic manipulation of food plants occurs by deleting a gene, or by adding a gene from another organism. So any gene added is, indeed, the result of millions of years of evolution.
That is false, in the first place - the genetic material added is often altered in the lab, or even created from scratch, and much of the inserted material is (for technological and engineering and economic reasons) framed and accompanied by genetic material not found anywhere nearby in the wild, and inserted into places in the genome otherwise unavailable to anything similar, and accompanied by engineering and technologically convenient genetic material of unknown influence long term.
In the second, the millions of years of evolution created the context - the original organism - not just the string of nucleotides. We have no experience with the possibilities of the genetics in the new context.
In the third, and most important, that is the quality of reasoning guiding the development and release of GMO organisms right now. That's how the people we depend on to oversee this stuff think. They are fools, playing with dynamite for money.
Read this, for example:
The added gene, like the brazil nut gene added to a soya bean, is already edible. I eat lots of brazil nuts, and so I eat the 'horrible' brazil nut gene and protein that Iceaura was so upset about, almost daily. This general principle is pretty much applicable to the vast majority of genetic manipulations of foods.
These people are fucking morons.