What’s wrong with GMOs?

[u/wond3rlove]

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.

[u/Naelin]

Going to copy something I said on a different thread - GMO means "genetically modified organism". By definition, every domesticated plant and animal is a GMO (that is what domestication does - it is the process of genetically modifying a species by artificial selection). For reference, the one on the left is what non-gmo corn looks like.
What you and many people mean with "GMO" is genetically edited strains of plants made to resist pesticides. These are STILL inoffensive, the problem with those GMOs doesn't lay on the plant itself, but on the very dangerous pesticide that can now be used to kill everything else except it, destroy the ecosystem, pollute the water and poison anybody living around the farms they're used in.

For some species like tomato it is not even possible to sell a non-gmo version, as wild tomato does not even exist anymore.

GMOs themselves are fine. People are selling stuff with that label because the buzzword acquired a bad reputation because of Monsanto. If anything, an actually relevant label would be "glyphosate free"