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Of course humans also took it upon themselves to define what "best ability to survive" is. Not saying that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's certainly a difference between GMO and regular evolved food. Edit: Well, thinking about it a bit more, of course selective breeding is humans picking what "best ability to survive" is as well...
I don't doubt what we decide should survive isn't necessarily what "nature" will decide should survive. If we get to a point where we are in too much conflict with "nature" we will lose most likely. Earth's evolution of life is much longer and stronger than we as a species are. But why not try? It's our imperative as a species to continue doing what's best for our survival.
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Nuclear reactors happen(ed) naturally, but weapons-grade uranium/plutonium does not, last I checked.
Obviously, that's why this argument is bad. Natural food happens naturally, GMO doesn't.
The actual issue with this argument is that there's a pretty big difference between selective breeding (which is leveraging a natural process to artificially encourage or suppress phenotypes) and modern-day genetic modification with more precise gene editing (e.g. with CRISPR or somesuch); the kind of genetic modification being done today is very different from the kind of genetic modification we've been doing for millennia. I guess that's similar to nuclear reactors (natural or otherwise) being very different from nuclear warheads, but the argument ain't about it being natural; it's about it being normal (gene editing ain't quite normal yet) or safe (as far as I know it is, but I'm no expert on the subject).
On that note, unless you're out in the wilderness foraging for nuts and berries, the food you eat is almost certainly not "natural" in a strict sense; even without selective breeding, the very concept of agriculture is quite far removed from nature (and I'd argue that selective breeding is a dependency of at least modern agriculture, and probably agriculture in general, prehistoric included).