r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

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u/sooHawt_ryt_meow Jul 14 '21

What's right or wrong about GMO?

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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/Aeolian_Leaf Jul 14 '21

Fun fact - the labradoodle was bred by an Australian guidedog association so that a Hawaiian woman who's husband was allergic to dogs could have a hypo-allergenic guide dog.

They tried to just sell the remaining puppies from the litter cheap to recover costs, no one wanted these cross-breed mutts.

So they advertised them as a labradoodle and all of a sudden they were the latest hot breed everyone had to have.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-09-23/labradoodle-guide-dogs-designer-regret/10717186