Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

You can be wary of the companies that make genetically modified food, and I recognize the process now is different that it has been throughout history, but genetically modified food should not be scary on its face. All food, everything you’ll ever eat, was radically genetically modified. It’s not a big deal.

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

In fact genetically modified food has lead to a lot of people being prevented from starving to death. There’s a very famous story about an anti GMO group burning down fields of rice (that was modified to grow faster or in a different climate or smth) that people were using locally just to like, survive. Genetic modification shouldn’t scare you man. Evil companies should scare you.

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

The story I was thinking of was the burning of the golden rice fields in the Philippines in 2013. Golden rice was created to help fight vitamin a deficiency, but anti GMO groups went in and burnt that shit down, for as far as im aware, no real good reason.

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

Sorry for the novel I just feel very strongly about this

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 1w

Nah ur good, that is an interesting story abt the golden rice, I hadn’t heard that before

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

I hope I could shift your perspective a bit. “Anti gmo” is a very common sentiment, so much so that they literally use it to advertise food (even when it’s almost NEVER the case lmao). I just don’t want people to keep blindly accepting these ideas without much consideration.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 1w

Yeah problem is with capitalism and the patenting of crops not with genetic modification itself. Genetic modification has the potential to do so much good

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

Yes almost all food has been genetically modified in some way through selective breeding and whatnot but that’s obviously quite a bit different from crispr and other more modern gene editing methods. My point wasn’t that there aren’t good reasons to develop gmo’s because there absolutely are, my point was that it’s not embarrassing to not trust them. Most people aren’t intimately aware of how gmos are developed and are aware of how immoral these companies are as we agreed on. I’m saying that the

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

Distrust isn’t unfounded or foolish

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Anonymous #2 1w

Very good way of putting it. This isn’t me nailing myself to a cross to defend Monsanto or something. This is just about accepting the good GMOs have done (which is a lot even if people making them are often evil) and understanding the good that could be done with them in the future. In my head, this would be like if people suddenly became avidly anti crop rotation during the days of early agriculture. Like, think how long that would set us back. This feels like that to me.

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

Distrust of companies making GMOs isn’t unfounded or foolish, but distrust of the concept of GMOs themselves kinda is. Again, in my head, it would be like if you distrusted something as massive for humanity as crop rotation.

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

But if you wanna distrust Henry Hitler, evil mustache haver and crop rotator of the town, that’s so chill with me I also don’t trust that guy.

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

I mean I’m not skeptical of most vaccines but people who have family members that were experimented on in the Tuskegee syphillis trials are wary of them, and I think for those people being wary is pretty understandable given their history and the history of the entity in question (the government in their case or factory farm megaconglomerates in ours)

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 1w

I think part of the fear of gmos is like distrust of corporations but some of it is just the bias we have towards what we perceive as “natural.” We hear a strawberry was given arctic flounder gene to be resistant to freezing and think “this is unnatural corruption of a strawberry.” Meanwhile in nature, horizontal gene transfer happens regularly. Not to mention the fucked up things we’ve bred

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

Well yeah, but I’m not telling you to trust factory farms. I’m telling you that you shouldn’t be put off from the *concept* of GMOs just because you rightfully distrust those factory farms. Just like people who underwent awful shit like that probably *shouldnt* be anti vaccine in concept, but very rightfully should distrust the government. Does that make sense?

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Anonymous #2 1w

Yeah a lot of it is the whole appeal to nature, hence why “anti gmo” covers every fucking food item even tho it’s definitely not true

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Anonymous fuuuckyikyak 1w

I mean I ain’t gonna lie if I was part of the Tuskegee syphillis trials I’d never get another vaccine again. But my distrust of vaccines wouldn’t be correct just understandable given the situation lol

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