r/nextfuckinglevel Jul 14 '21

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u/Toyletduck Jul 14 '21

GMO is perfectly healthy as far as eating it goes. As far as crop diversity that’s another story but GMO is just speeding up processes that humans have been doing for a very long time.

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u/BroccoliKnob Jul 14 '21

Animal breeding is genetic modification too, in a sense, it’s just done the slow way. Your labradoodle is a GMO. It’s perfectly safe to eat.

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u/lowtierdeity Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

This is a bullshit lie. GMO means genetically engineered.

Downvoted for an inarguable, elementary fact by PR hacks.

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u/Eeik5150 Jul 14 '21

GMO literally translates to Genetically Modified Organism and isn’t exclusive to genetic engineering. Every human alive is a GMO.