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>nor is opposition to GMO technology an immediate grave threat to public health The complete lack of awareness of the hypocrisy is why it's relevant. If you t
by beerandt 5y ago
>nor is opposition to GMO technology an immediate grave threat to public health
The complete lack of awareness of the hypocrisy is why it's relevant.
If you took crop GMO, got rid of the one-time gene modification, but instead, started growing the unmodified plant...
and then just directly injected those modified genes such that billions of cells began expressing/building proteins from the modified genes...
...you'd end up with almost exactly the mRNA vaccine technology. (Well, if it worked on plants.)
But the 100% plant process that doesn’t rely on in-situ gene transfer or modification is dangerous to grow and eat,
while the viral process that involves intentional gene transfer into human cells, and said cells manufacturing the very part of the
virus that makes it so effective at cellular invasion...is unquestionably safe to inject?
That's why opposition to GMO is relevant. It's completely contradictory and heretical to question the science of one while faithfully crusading for the other.
- zzzeek 5y agohere is why people don't like GMOs. it has nothing to do with the genetic modification. it is due to the rationale by which GMOs are used in the US, which are exactly: 1. to allow much greater use of herbicides 2. to allow much greater use of pesticides 3. to allow seeds to be patented and subject to license fees such that control of the food supply is handed over to multinational corporations. now you can get into debating that glyophosphate is just fine and you could just drink a whole jar of it no problem (yeah right) and all that, you could get into how it's just fine if there's no more seeds available to humanity that don't come with license fees, but that's what the actual debate is about.