Comment: The term "splicing" is misleading

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The term "splicing" is misleading

There is no precision in the way GMO organisms are currently created. They use a "shotgun" technique, blasting dna into other dna. They can get genes to attach by blasting them in on gold particles. What results is a crazy soup of characteristics and expressions. The small percentage that are viable as organisms, are patented and marketed. There's no telling what kind of other protein expression, or hidden epigenome characteristics (that part of the genetic code that turns on or off with behavior) become possible. Blasting spider genes into goat in a petri dish is never going to happen in nature, but they're getting goat milk that has spider web material in it, and making kevlar (bullet proof fabric). It's beyond imagination what they're tinkering with. They don't understand what they're doing. Nobody does. The ethics of letting them tinker is open for discussion, but personally, I don't want to eat it!