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deadmomjokes:thespectacularspider-girl:jiggly-jello-squid:art-angelsz:nunyabizni:trashcanbees:asapscience:Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention. SourceWe did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus ChristRemember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.Bananas looked like lemons wtfIsn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?Yes. But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions. But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant. Why? So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids. Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders. We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.GMO just stands for Genetically Modified Organism.Selective breeding is modifying genetics. You are selecting which genes and expressions you want. So everything that has been ‘bred out’ to what it is today is a GMO. Like all those above, and my favorite: Corn.But yeah, lab-produced GMOs are not the devils everyone thinks. Like, scientists were working with strawberries a while back to try and make them cold resistant by using genes of cold water fish, and people got SO up in arms. I personally like strawberries, and if they were able to be grown in colder climates they wouldn’t be as expensive, so yeah, go on with the science!!GMO crops are saving lives by making food easier to grow in areas that need it, and by reducing other risks (like pesticides mentioned above). Making these changes makes food more accessible, easier to grow, and often cheaper. -- source link