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More likely to follow the exact path that selected breeding did. Shelf life, increased size, herbicide immunity, and similar at all other costs.

• safety1st 2y ago
  The opinion of an expert in the article directly contradicts your cynicism. > The push for nutrient-dense GMOs is a recent trend, says Kathleen Hefferon, a microbiologist at Cornell University. The first wave of GMOs were for staple crops that were easier to grow. > "There was a real push of trying to achieve food security for a lot of populaces in developing countries and usually that involved making these staple crops that grew better, such as rice and corn and wheat and things like this," she explained. > A transgenic papaya was introduced to combat a virus that was destroying the crops in Hawaii. It's largely credited with saving the industry on the islands. There were also crops to increase nutritional value for populations in developing countries. Golden rice was developed in the late 1990s to have more beta-carotene to combat Vitamin A deficiencies. Because of practical and regulatory issues, the crop never took off. > The trend now is for biofortified foods, like the Purple Tomato.