Dr Jane Goodall: supporters of GM food deluded & ‘anti-science’ (backs new anti-GM book)

[jeff47]

92. Nothing we eat is natural.

Thanks to Monsanto being evil and a lot of fear, there's a lot of misinformation about GMOs and how they differ from "regular" food.

Nothing we eat is natural. Every single thing we eat has been modified by humans. The ancestor of peas produced much smaller seeds. The ancestor of tomatoes produced much smaller fruit. The ancestors of wheat and rice produced fewer grains. And so on.

Until recently, we modified our food through selective breeding over the 10,000 years we have been farming. Genetic modification is a much less clumsy way to do selective breeding. But we could still reach the same point via selective breeding. It would just take a very long time.

Also, if I come up with a new hybrid tomato, I can just sell it to anyone. Even call it 100% organic. Even if I hybridize it with nightshade. If I come up with a new GMO, it at least has to go through animal testing.

Eat or not eat whatever you'd like, but you should know that a certified organic not-genetically-modified apple is just as much of a frankenfood. It just took us a lot longer to make it.