Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention.
We did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus Christ
Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.
Bananas looked like lemons wtf
Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?
Yes. But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.
GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.
People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions. But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant. Why? So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.
GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.
GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids. Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders. We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.
I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations
The issue with GMOs is that corporations like Monsanto are patenting GMOs and arresting indigenous farmers for cross pollinating with they seeds. But there is nothing dangerous about the science.
^This.
The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.
this should be in the largest letters we’ve got, plastered everywhere until it gets through people’s heads:
The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.
Next to patenting, they’re creating seed strains that are only fertile for one generation so you have to buy them from Monsato each year. This dependency is particularily devastating in as a tool of neocolonialism.
And corporations like Monsato are creating crops that can survive highly chemical pest resistants, and selling them in combination with those chemicals. Those chemicals then end up spreading, killing the plants on neighboring fields as well as wild plants and animals.
Through their ‘use our one generation chemical resistant crops or watch everything die’, Monsato creates a monopoly, which results in all seeds of a specific plant being exactly the same. This is turn means that one plant disease can effectively wipe out the entire plant species.
So yeah, this fucks over the environment, the farmers and ultimately all of us who eat food, starting with the economically least powerful areas and the poorest farmers.
So yeah, GMO in the hands of capitalism is BAD and people are upset about it for very good reasons. The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.
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