There have, in fact, been numerous objections to genetically engineered plants and by implication everything in the second category. You might not realize how much the public is/was wary of engineered biology, on the grounds that nobody understood how it worked in terms of exact internal details. The reply that sort of convinced people—though it clearly didn’t calm every fear about new biotech—wasn’t that we understood it in a sense. It was that humanity had been genetically engineering plants via cultivation for literal millennia, so empirical facts allowed us to rule out many potential dangers.
Oh sorry, my intention was to refer to non-GMO plant cultivars. There do exist issues with non-GMO plant cultivars, like them getting less nutritious, or occasionally being toxic, but to my knowledge the general public has never gotten riled up about any aspect of non-GMO plant breeding, for better or worse. Like you said, we’ve been doing that for millennia. (This comment is not secretly arguing some point about AI, just chatting.)
There have, in fact, been numerous objections to genetically engineered plants and by implication everything in the second category. You might not realize how much the public is/was wary of engineered biology, on the grounds that nobody understood how it worked in terms of exact internal details. The reply that sort of convinced people—though it clearly didn’t calm every fear about new biotech—wasn’t that we understood it in a sense. It was that humanity had been genetically engineering plants via cultivation for literal millennia, so empirical facts allowed us to rule out many potential dangers.
Oh sorry, my intention was to refer to non-GMO plant cultivars. There do exist issues with non-GMO plant cultivars, like them getting less nutritious, or occasionally being toxic, but to my knowledge the general public has never gotten riled up about any aspect of non-GMO plant breeding, for better or worse. Like you said, we’ve been doing that for millennia. (This comment is not secretly arguing some point about AI, just chatting.)