You are mixing terms, resulting in pretty cheap rhetoric. If I tame wolves and chose their mating partners — it&#x27;s breeding. Same with crops. It&#x27;s not what people call &quot;genetic modification&quot;.<p>If I cherry-pick genes of one organism, attach them to a virus and infect other organisms with that: now that&#x27;s what is called genetic modification.<p>I won&#x27;t argue which is better, it seems like a hot topic for <i>some people</i>. But I can completely understand how somebody is OK with the first one and not so much with the second. It&#x27;s like a difference between choosing an engineer to construct your house, and making your own modifications to the final construction project. You have to be completely sure you know what you are doing to do the latter. Some people doubt we actually know what we are doing. Sometimes looking back it&#x27;s hard to blame them.