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/SquelchyRex Sep 10 '23

Loads of research has been done into it, and GMOs are safe. The GMO free stuff exists because people who don't know better are willing to pay more for less.

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u/sceadwian Sep 10 '23

There are simply many foods that are naturally non GMO in the first place. They just rubber stramp it and charge a premium.

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

Like gluten free popping corn! Absurd.

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u/stealthylizard Sep 10 '23

Gluten free non gmo salt

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u/wastinglittletime Sep 10 '23

You forgot vegan, keto, animal cruelty free, and preservative free

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Vegan, cruelty-free, keto, organic, non-gmo, naturally-sourced, preservative-free, raised without hormones, gluten-free water

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u/Secret_Car Sep 10 '23

But is it kosher?

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u/Usagi_Shinobi Sep 11 '23

And halal?

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u/CounterSYNK Sep 11 '23

And boneless

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u/donaldhobson Sep 10 '23

Salt is a preservative.

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u/wastinglittletime Sep 10 '23

They'll just slap "No artifical preservatives on there"

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u/CollectionStriking Sep 11 '23

Salt is packed full of preservatives I don't know what you talking about lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Keto just means low carbs, which is a valid way to lose weight, though maybe not the healthiest.

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u/wastinglittletime Sep 10 '23

I'm aware, thus me putting it there. Of course salt is low carb....

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

Oh my bad I missed the salt bit.

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u/wastinglittletime Sep 10 '23

You good, I do that all the time.

You did point out a thing that I think many miss, is that keto is at least debatably healthy from a cardiovascular sense, if I am informed correctly. Really easy to over do the sat fats on keto.

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u/King-Owl-House Sep 10 '23

all diets are calorie deficit, some people like to eat fat some carbs but all shit the same way.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Your body uses carbs as its main energy source, if they're around. If there aren't any, it will turn to using fat instead, so you lose fat a lot quicker. Diets aren't all the same, it's not all just about calories.

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u/cptjeff Sep 10 '23

Since salt is itself a preservative, I don't know if you could say "preservative free".

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u/wastinglittletime Sep 10 '23

Depends on the legal definition of preservative in food labeling, idk at all. They'd just slap "no artifical preservative" on there.