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How long have genetically modified foods been around and common? Did they coincide with a population boom or did most population increase come before the use of
by BubRoss 7y ago
How long have genetically modified foods been around and common? Did they coincide with a population boom or did most population increase come before the use of genetically modified foods? Just because larger population exists at the same time right now it doesn't mean their times coincided with each other.
- beat 7y agoWhen I say "GMO", I mean laboratory manipulation of genetics, not selective breeding. The tech was first done experimentally in the 1970s, and didn't become commercially viable at all until the 1990s, and it wasn't until quite recently that it became easy and inexpensive. Most of the 20th century population explosion happened before that, and the expected rate of population growth over the next century is an order of magnitude lower than the previous century.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoWhat does "laboratory manipulation" even mean?