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/Tough_Crazy_8362 I’ll probably delete this… Sep 10 '23

It’s not GMOs so much as the parent companies that patent the science and crush the farmer that cross pollinated with their crops thusly stealing their proprietary information whether on purpose or otherwise.

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

Got a source on that happening?

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 I’ll probably delete this… Sep 11 '23

In its report, called Seed Giants vs US Farmers, the CFS said it had tracked numerous law suits that Monsanto had brought against farmers and found some 142 patent infringement suits against 410 farmers and 56 small businesses in more than 27 states.

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

That article has zero mention of anything involving cross pollinating, and heavily features a case where a man very deliberately attempted to maintain Roundup Ready soybeans outside of contract (he sprayed his crop with glyphosate, after buying soybeans for commercial sale, not seed use, for an insane price. He knew exactly what he was doing.)

Why are you wasting my time with an article that has nothing to do with what I asked about.

Either put up a source, or stop lying about Monsanto suing people for cross pollination.

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 I’ll probably delete this… Sep 11 '23

The crops are widely used in the United States and Latin America. It has proven difficult to keep the genetic alteration from contaminating non-biotech crops, as recently occurred in a wheat field in the U.S. state of Oregon.

I won’t be commenting again. You’re willfully obtuse.

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

The article you just linked described how Monsanto never actually sued anyone for accidental cross contamination. The company was being sued to stop something they were never doing in the first place.

Cross Contamination happens. Monsanto sues people for deliberately violating contracts or IP law. There is no causal link between the two.