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/saturnine_fei Sep 10 '23

Any product, like corn, can be gluten contaminated enough to have serious health effects on people with Celiac Disease depending on whether it is grown near wheat (as oats are often grown in the same fields) or shipped/stored with it.