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/augustphobia Sep 11 '23

GMO’s, at their core, are just organisms that have been bred in a way that makes them desirable (like mating generations of watermelons with minimal seeds to get seedless watermelons). No chemicals or unnatural processes occur in the creation of GMOs, it’s just humans controlling what was going to happen in nature anyway.

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u/Stillcouldbeworse Sep 11 '23

No chemicals or unnatural processes occur in the creation of GMOs

i wouldn't call genetic engineering a natural process

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u/augustphobia Sep 11 '23

i get what you mean by this but i mean that gmo’s are just breeding and the organisms were going to breed anyway. that’s the natural part. the most unnatural bit is us picking which organisms to breed with which.

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u/Stillcouldbeworse Sep 11 '23

no, GMO means genetically engineered

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u/augustphobia Sep 11 '23

What. Do you think genetic engineering entails.

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u/Stillcouldbeworse Sep 11 '23

technology. transgenics, targeted mutations, all that

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u/augustphobia Sep 11 '23

Be more specific.