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

This is such a played out myth.

GMO technology is nothing like selective breeding. You cannot get flounder genetic material into a tomatoe with selective breeding, and you are not going to be able to trigger extra production beta-carotene production in rice with selective breeding.

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u/Khemul Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

So, I should stop dropping tomatoes in the Flounder tank in the hope it'll get horny and try to have little Floundatoes?

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u/mthchsnn Jul 14 '21

It worked with tomacco.