• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
    25·
    11 months ago

    I unironically want Extra-GMO food options.

    Just do your goddamn worst to these things, gene nerds, I want rice that tastes like ice cream and has every vitamin.

    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      11 months ago

      Everything we eat is already a GMO. How does speeding up the process do anything. People just think the pseudoscience in movies is real and imagine some freakish monster they would be forced to eat… which is already the case without GMO’s now that I think about it.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        11 months ago

        There are legitimate concerns… Low genetic diversity is already a big problem, especially when an artificial species outcompetes indigenous variants only to all die to the same random illness.

        GMOs aren’t inherently different but make it significantly easier and cheaper to fuck up ecosystems in this way, which is the most convincing argument I’ve heard against them to date.

        Also the patenting of crops is a terrible practice that needs to die, and GMOs are just amplifying the problem by making “patent-free” crops even less competitive.

        Finally we already have more than enough food in the world to feed everyone (we just lack the ability/willingness to properly distribute it), and that’s before taking into account just how much of farm land is used for cattle we don’t actually need or to grow cattle feed (it’s a LOT). So in this way GMOs kinda sound like a solution looking for a problem (at least when only viewing them as yield/profit multipliers). Doesn’t Monsanto make enough money already?

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        We need two things: abolish gene patents and stop engineering food to resist the chemicals we overuse that destroys the land and poisons the water. GMO is just a tool, but it’s one we can’t trust companies to self regulate.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    11 months ago

    Thats horrifying. I’m in favor of GMO plants (of course Monsanto and seed patenting is awful) but I didnt consider GMO animals. Thats particularly evil, of course factory farming with antibiotics and all that is already fucking evil, but damn.

    • BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      34·
      11 months ago

      We’ve been genetically modifying animals for millennia. Every animal that has been domesticated didn’t start that way. We bred them, with genetics.

    • LwL@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      Would it be evil to genetically engineer a cow that can produce milk without having to get pregnant? Seems much less evil to me than the current state of things.

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        11 months ago

        Wow U didnt even consider this. We can’t just like give the cow progesterone to synthesize a milk environment? Or I guess making more dairy cows is also part of the business.