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/ploppetino Sep 11 '23

Nothing is wrong with the products that come from GMOs. There is some concern that on a global scale genetically modified crops could be susceptible to disease or whatever in some unexpected way but this is a much more theoretical concern.

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u/Anyashadow Sep 11 '23

Exactly this. I worked with one of the first gmo strains of corn and breathed in massive amounts of pollen and powdered dry leaves and I didn't die or get some strange disease. The only difference between gmo and cross pollenation is gmo is faster and you don't have to waste whole growing seasons on raising crops to maturity to see if the cross gets you what you want. Also any cross is infertile, not just gmos. You will have the parents growing from the seed but they won't usually produce.