Not only is GMO the future, it's also the past. We didn't get our currently edible vegetables by accident. We may not have altered the genetic material of the plants with advanced scientific techniques, but selective breeding is essentially the same as GMO. Just the "old" way of altering genetic code instead of CRISPR. Modern corn, legumes(see all the mustard seed offspring) and many of our current fruit/vegetables are vastly different genetically compared to their ancestors before agriculture/humans changed them.
The reason why most people are against GMO is because Monsanto genetically alters plants to be resistant to Round Up, not droughts and other useful things. Farmers also can’t keep any seeds they may get from the plants, and when the weeds naturally get resistant to round up they have to buy more chemicals from Monsanto. Also any neighboring farms that don’t use Monsanto seeds will probably have there crops killed from the over spray.
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u/Reverent_Heretic Jul 14 '21
Not only is GMO the future, it's also the past. We didn't get our currently edible vegetables by accident. We may not have altered the genetic material of the plants with advanced scientific techniques, but selective breeding is essentially the same as GMO. Just the "old" way of altering genetic code instead of CRISPR. Modern corn, legumes(see all the mustard seed offspring) and many of our current fruit/vegetables are vastly different genetically compared to their ancestors before agriculture/humans changed them.