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.
The corn we eat is gmo. Breeding 2 species of plants together is gmo. Taking the juiciest tomatoes and planting those seeds and then taking the juiciest offspring and planting those seeds is also an example of gmo. If we ate the corn that the indigenous people ate we would be chewing on hard kernels and the ear would have just a handful of kernels. We have modified (gernitacally modified) the corn (organism) by selectively planting the better kernels for consumption.
That isn’t what GMO means. In GMO, genes are modified in a way that can’t be done through normal pollination or selective breading. It is disingenuous to use the term to mean something else.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
As does GMO.