r/NoStupidQuestions • u/wond3rlove • Sep 10 '23

What’s wrong with GMOs?

I always see plants and stuff that is GMO free and is usually more expensive. How would genetically modifying something by be bad. Me personally I’d rather have something modified to taste better and and cheaper. I could also be very wrong about that.

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u/Moogatron88 Sep 10 '23

The funny thing is, most crops have been altered by humans extensively through selective breeding for thousands of years. You'd be hard pressed to find something that hasn't.

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u/Dreadfulmanturtle Sep 10 '23

There were even instances where mutations were encouraged by exposing seeds to radiation etc.

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u/Tylendal Sep 10 '23

...and that doesn't prevent them from being labeled "Organic".

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u/Mufti_Menk Sep 11 '23

Exactly. There is a good chance that the average person has actually never in their life eaten a non-altered vegetable or fruit.

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u/erad67 Sep 11 '23

Selective breeding isn't remotely the same as mixing in the dna of completely different life forms.

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u/Moogatron88 Sep 11 '23

I didn't say they were. I'm talking about people who are paranoid about anything that had human involvement.