Something that’s been annoying me lately is the Genetically Modified Foods topic. People don’t seem to realise that there’s little difference between breeding and genetic modification. Almost none of the food we eat looks or even tastes anything like it did in the wild - the cultivars and breeds we eat today got changed by humans over tens, hundreds or in some cases thousands of years.
So.. on the surface I have no problem with genetically modified food. If we can make food cheaper, tastier, more disease-resistant, etc. then why not? Surely that’s what people have been doing all along?
The only side worth arguing is probably the economics behind it - I understand how sterile plants / seeds and patented / controlled things can really mess with the smaller scale farmers and obviously that should be prevented from happening.
Surely some testing of genetically modified food is important, but I think campaigning against the very concept of genetically modified food is just plain stupid.
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