I like to bring this up whenever anyone argues that natural is better. There’s no such thing as a natural food anymore. We made the food we eat as edible as it is through thousands of years of selective breeding.
This is why I hate the anti-GMO argument so much. We’ve already genetically modified fucking everything.
Anti-GMO is not about genetically modified food in general, but more about opposing the pesticide-industrial complex. Monsanto and Bayer don’t make plants resistant to pests, but resistant to the pest killers they sell.
Anti-GMO, if coming from a place of reason, is a stance against pesticides in your food. One of the primary reasons to genetically modify some plant is so Roundup herbicides can be used on it.
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I like to bring this up whenever anyone argues that natural is better. There’s no such thing as a natural food anymore. We made the food we eat as edible as it is through thousands of years of selective breeding.
This is why I hate the anti-GMO argument so much. We’ve already genetically modified fucking everything.
Anti-GMO is not about genetically modified food in general, but more about opposing the pesticide-industrial complex. Monsanto and Bayer don’t make plants resistant to pests, but resistant to the pest killers they sell.
Anti-GMO, if coming from a place of reason, is a stance against pesticides in your food. One of the primary reasons to genetically modify some plant is so Roundup herbicides can be used on it.