Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day agoI meant create a food crop that is actually beneficial to humanity … not some empty nutritionless white styrofoam or equally terrible frankenstein corn that simultaneously destroys the land and the people who eat this so called ‘food’.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
What’s wrong with golden rice?
Revan343@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Golden rice is an example of a GMO that’s actually beneficial to humanity, or would be; anti-GMO sentiment has kept it from being grown in any significant amounts.
It’s tweaked to produce vitamin A, which rice normally does not; deficiency is a common problem in places where the poor get most of their calories from rice
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Nothing really it’s a GMO that was created to fill a vitamin deficiency in some parts of Asia. Can’t remember what vitamin it was though, absolutely brilliant success of a crop though. Funny enough some of the research on it may have used my 2x great grandfathers work as a baseline since he was working with some folks to do something vaguely similar with millet back in the early 1900s. It went nowhere but did lead to some success for his orange groves though.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 18 hours ago
In a vacuum, nothing wrong with it. It was just bound to fail because it tried to fix a problem caused by poverty.