Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous
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BeBopaLula@piefed.ca 7 months ago
Umm, I personally would be more worried about the bioengineered stuff myself.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It depends what they’re tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become “Roundup ready,” and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 months ago
Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 months ago
We’ve been manipulating the genes of plants since 1716 when Thomas Fairchild first grafted two different things together to make the first hybrid plant. If you like modern corn, you can thank bioengineering.
BeBopaLula@piefed.ca 7 months ago
I dunno, I see stuff about there is not even original corn and other items left anywhere except for seed banks.
Also don’t like bioengineered means they own it. Corps don’t share.Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 months ago
I can agree that Monsanto can fuck all the way off.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Monsanto is dead, Bayer is the devil incarnate.
GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maize was domesticated 9000 years ago by humans there is no “original corn”
GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thousands of year older than 1716 if you count domestication of species like bananas
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Look into it. Bioengineering is not scary, it’s just a word the some media outlets fear monger
altphoto@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Exactly. If your body can eat it, its done. Its just carbon.