It's an intentional dilution of the term GMO. A natural process that alters genetics (husbandry, bacteria, fish etc) is not a genetically modified organism.
A GMO specifically refers to the human-modification of genes via external process.
The difference is that nature has ways to reduce issues of cross species mixing, but not of humans, say, deciding that food should glow. On top of this, many of the changes introduce things that have never existed in the human food supply. -- How does a human process that glow protein, to continue the example?
This is so that people start mixing "natural" and man-made modifications to organisms in their minds and start accepting them as two sides of the same coin.
It's an intentional dilution of the term GMO. A natural process that alters genetics (husbandry, bacteria, fish etc) is not a genetically modified organism.
A GMO specifically refers to the human-modification of genes via external process.
The difference is that nature has ways to reduce issues of cross species mixing, but not of humans, say, deciding that food should glow. On top of this, many of the changes introduce things that have never existed in the human food supply. -- How does a human process that glow protein, to continue the example?
This is so that people start mixing "natural" and man-made modifications to organisms in their minds and start accepting them as two sides of the same coin.