To Advocate Diabolically Further

Okay, sorting things out to advocate diabolically further.

Organic: separate issue. Better living through chemistry.(TM)

Up- and cross-breeding: Slow, naturally introduced, using known elements. Limited range, eg you can't cross corn and apples naturally.

Grafting: Still using known, natural elements. (Our volunteer peach probably reflects the root stock not the peach it came from, if I understand that correctly, but they're still pretty good.)

Radiation-induced mutations: Still working with known elements.

Gene splicing: Within a species, two corn types, nothing scary introduced. Cross-species, well, we don't really know, molecularly, what happens when we add some fish DNA to our raspberries. And if we just make up lab RNA and tip that in...

Dropping the advocacy:

About digestive &c. difficulties: Transportation and mass Ag production have made it possible for (generally speaking) anyone to eat anything from anywhere. (Order your steaks from Oklahoma.) The whole "world society" thing means folks who subsisted on one kind of diet may marry a spouse from a whole 'nuther diet line and problems ensue when the diets blend. Those whose ancestors had basically no dairy can't handle pizza, whatever. All these such elements probably introduce more problems than GM foods ever will, statistically. And of course Darwin has a way of working such things out pretty quickly, and if D doesn't, we'll GM our own genes to get rid of the problems.

Sux to be a statistic, of course. Better not feed millions, just in case. Wait, I slipped back into advocacy mode. Think I'm done.