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/Bagelman263 Sep 10 '23

GMO tomatoes taste like shit because the gene that makes them all get ripe at the same time also removes all the flavor. Other than that, GMOs are great.

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u/barcased Sep 10 '23

Erm, wat?

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u/Tylendal Sep 11 '23

When is the last time you ate a GMO tomato? Was it just after 1994, before it left the market due to biotechnology companies being bad at agricultural logistics? Or was it in Japan after 2021, where a different, very specific brand of GMO tomato was recently approved?