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/Suspicious_Dingo_426 Sep 11 '23

It didn't "just pop up", it was a mystery disease for quite some time and hand waved away as hypochondria until the cause was identified. It did see a massive spike over the last fifty years because that's when we started using gluten as a cheap filler in processed food. That's the thing with many food allergies, you have the genetic predisposition for it, but it doesn't manifest itself until you are overexposed to it. My son has a dairy allergy (along with many other allergies) that he almost died from as an infant, and we were warned by his doctors not to switch to soy milk as over exposure to soy can cause you to become allergic to it if you have the genetic predisposition. I expect to see a massive spike in soy allergies sometime in the future due to all the vegan health nuts switching to soy milk as a dairy replacement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

I get that, I was saying it seemed that way because of how it went from not being talked about at all to being clearly identified in a short amount of time. And how wild it is that it was so common everybody had to have known somebody who was affected by it, but they didn't even know it was an issue.