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Dionys1 year, 6 months ago
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Hybrids are somewhat different from genetically modified foods. At least in terms of how it's accomplished. Hybridization involves time and selecting dominant crops or crops with particular genetic 'pluses' and mating them/crossing them with other crops with particular 'pluses' to bring about (hopefully) a hybrid that includes the best of both.
GM food these days often involves snipping bits of genetics from a different plant altogether (or animal sometimes) and inserting that snippet of genetic material into the genome of an existing plant.
What it comes down to is that I trust that nature knows when a plant should be sterile and not reproduce because of faulty genetics or hybridization but that I don't trust that scientists have any idea of what they're doing in terms of the impact inserting genes might have on the planet as s whole.
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Dionys1 year, 6 months ago
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Add to this the fact that most recent studies of GM crops including both corn and soybeans shows that they have absolutely no greater yield than non-GM plants and those non-GM plants don't have self-terminating seedstock and it seems like a no-brainer to go with non-GM seed for now.
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