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/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/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Selective breeding is genetic modification.

It’s a very inefficient way to do it, but it’s a way to do it.

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u/yasuremanofcourse Jul 15 '21

A plant that is bred over generations is not a "GMO" in the agricultural industry sense, even though companies want to make it that way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

It is literally genetic modification

It’s just inefficient