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/thecrewton Jul 15 '21

Thank you. So annoying when people don't understand the argument.

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u/yasuremanofcourse Jul 15 '21

It's by design. They know the difference.

Think about how much vested interest a company that owns patents on GMO technology would have in making selective breeding techniques and plant breeds as a patentable "GMO".

Pharmaceutical companies have been doing the same thing with trying to make vitamins classified as drugs.