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Only if you don't count selective breeding as GMO. Which I do. We've "genetically modified" our food to have greater yields, better taste, pest resistance, etc.
by TheCraiggers 7y ago
Only if you don't count selective breeding as GMO. Which I do. We've "genetically modified" our food to have greater yields, better taste, pest resistance, etc. Just because someone in a labcoat wasn't hunched over a petri dish doesn't mean the genetics aren't being tweaked. The corn we eat today is all but indistinguishable from what we ate in our past.
Genes are genes, and changes to them are changes to them.
- ksec 7y ago>Only if you don't count selective breeding as GMO Well if selective breeding is GMO then there is nothing on earth that isn't GMO. We have been doing selective breeding since before age of industrial revolution.
- TheCraiggers 7y agoAgreed, which is why I find the health scare rather silly. Are there arguments still to be had on the ethics of what we are changing? Perhaps. But the health risk has been basically proven (as much as anything ever is in science) to be nonexistent.