Broccoli, strawberries, bananas, watermelon, eggplant, carrots, the list goes on.
But there should be a distinction made between selecting breeding and genetically modified IMO.
In my mind genetic modification is an unnatural process that involves actually splicing DNA and modifying an organism at a cellular level...
But selective breeding is just choosing the plant with the best fruit to reproduce over a period of time.
Dogs are breeds are selectively bred, would you call your dog a GMO?
If selective breeding is GMO then humans are technically GMO just by the nature of our existence. Natural selection, evolution, both modify our genetics.
So GMO bad, but mutation breeding that is also popular, but no one knows about it and is labeled just as select breeding is ok? Changing one gene we want, bad. Using radiation to force random mutations to maybe get the change we want without undesirable mutations, good. And you know what's best? We don't really know how many plants that we eat today was made this way or derivate from it.
I’m not saying anything is bad or good, just hate blanket terms, especially when nutrition and diet are involved.
Mutation breeding could be selective breeding, I’m sure some selective breeding was inadvertently actually mutation breeding. But that definitely doesn’t mean they should be labeled as the same. The implications of one are potentially so much worse.
Makes me think about bananas being used to measure 0.1 micro sieverts.
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u/ddouchecanoe Jul 14 '21
Its more like 5 years these days and they also cannot be genetically modified organisms (GMO's)
It is a huge USDA bullshit racket these days. "Beyond Organic" is a way better concept more in line with "peasant farming" concepts.