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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 25 points 2 years 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 points 2 years 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 points 2 years 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 points 2 years 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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

By making it more scientific and therefore cooler.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] mountain_goat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Rainworld spotted

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Now I want even taller giraffes. Qould look real funky.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years 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 points 2 years 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.

[-] Cheskaz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I feel like the comparisons of chickens from the 1950s to those today really highlight this

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

This is too real 😭

[-] LwL@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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 points 2 years 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.

[-] brb@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

You guys are the reason we will never get genitically engineered catgirls

[-] Aelar64@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago
[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don’t their legs snap easily enough? When will Sally learn she’s gone too far?!

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So you want to commit animal eugenics, sally?

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