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Does she let her kids eat sweet potatoes? While there is AFAIK no genetically engineered variety of sweet potato being cultivated, every cultivated variety of
by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
Does she let her kids eat sweet potatoes?
While there is AFAIK no genetically engineered variety of sweet potato being cultivated, every cultivated variety of sweet potato bears genetic traces of having been modified by Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which is the bacterium which is widely used to edit plant genomes.
- lll-o-lll 3y agoI think, to understand her concerns, you would need to be in the field. I’m pretty smart, and I have plenty of layman knowledge, but I’m completely lost once she gets technical. The summary of the issue, as I understand it, is as follows. The modifications do much more than we realised, and the impacts are poorly tested. That’s the gist. It’s enough for me to go “there could be dragons here”, but I honestly haven’t bothered to try and change any purchasing decisions. I think the horse has already bolted anyway. Doesn’t the gmo end up in pretty much everything regardless?
- dade_ 3y agoour understanding of DNA is pretty basic. I’d say we’re using a hatchet to do surgery. Did she make any reference to studies?
- lll-o-lll 3y agoYes, but I’m texting her to get info. I’ll update here, but it’ll probably take a while. Probably shouldn’t have said anything, but I was hopeful that there might be another plant molecular biologist in the audience who could clear things up.
- rawgabbit 3y agoI am anlso interested in this topic. Thanks