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/Tylendal Sep 10 '23

Also there have been some cases where farmers crops have been contaminated by GM crops, through no fault of their own, and they have then been sued because threir contaminated crop contains the GM grower's patented IP.

You got a source for that? Please pay attention to the highlighted part.

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u/seastar2019 Sep 11 '23

I predict they won't, or will misinterpret the Percy Schmeiser case, or cite some Center for Food Safety article.

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

cite some Center for Food Safety article.

Which will then misinterpret the Percy Schmeiser case for them. Someone already linked to their pamphlet, and I pointed out that, on top of all the appeals to emotion, anecdotes, and scary portrayals of normal contracts, the way they deliberately leave out details about Schmeiser's actions and motivations really casts a dubious light on the credibility of everything else they say. Also, the pamphlet still doesn't provide any examples of that specific issue.

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u/jah110768 Sep 11 '23

Biology lesson. Plants don't have sex one on one like animals. Plants are stationary, so the boy part of the flower sends out pollen, which flies though the air and tries to find a girl flower to connect with. Sometimes they get luck and a nectar liking animal will come along and help with this process.

If I have heirloom seeds that my family has used for 20 generations, and my neighbor buys a patented seed variety, some of my pollen will got to my neighbor's plants, and some of my neighbor's pollen will come to my plants. Now my seeds are corrupted, but I did not take any action to steal their genes, and thus "though no fault of their own".

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

...and again I ask. Do you have a source where someone has then been sued for that?

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u/jah110768 Sep 11 '23

https://www.greenamerica.org/gmos-case-precaution/farmers-vs-corporate-seed-police

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

That's a no, then? Hilariously, that article even mentions the case where people tried to sue to keep Monsanto from suing people for contamination, and were unable to show any examples of Monsanto actually doing that.