Comment on Corn 🌽

• anzo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ancestor is not the same as non GMO. One could say that primates in Madagascar are ancestors to human. But there’s no human population that is either GMO or went through the process of selective breeding.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True, but people selectively bred teosinte into corn.

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    • Sightline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok… but the reason why people don’t like GMOs is because they’re bred to be doused in pesticides. They also can cross-pollinate with non-GMO’s to create non viable seeds among other things.

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      • ArachnidMania@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        *Some Is the keyword, GMO purposes can be vast, and not all are just for pesticides or non-fertility

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      • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        GMO is a misconstrued term much like free range or grass fed or no trans fats.

        Don’t step on the rake.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    selective breeding

    I wonder, isn’t sexual selection a form of “selective breeding”?

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Indeed.

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