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Okay. Congratulations, your system failed, because some of those issues take decades to manifest.
Thats quite the logical leap. As far as I can see none of the examples tackled issues that were actually a threat to the existing system. Waiting on them would most likely saved more people from hurt / death than just doing the FAFO approach.
Alright, but we don't know which things will be dangerous decades into the future before we actually test them that way. So how long then do we have to test anything new before it is widely available? 50 years? 100?
Please consider the following:
How did early humans find out which food sources were safe to eat, and which were not?