Hey curious what others think, I’m a big believer in sustainable & permaculture based agriculture but also have heard of some instances where its helped, idk maybe that’s monsanto propaganda I turn to you chacha to educate me.
“Golden Rice is a covert attempt to win wider approval for genetically modified food and will not solve problems of malnutrition. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) – like other problems on malnutrition and hunger – is not caused by the lack of Vitamin A in food, but by people’s inability to achieve a balanced diet.” https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5177-golden-rice-is-unnecessary-and-dangerous
“Rainbow papaya (Carica papaya L.) is a genetically engineered (GE) cultivar with resistance to papaya ringspot virus (PRSV). This cultivar currently accounts for about 70% of Hawaii’s papaya acreage. … No differences were observed between GE and non-GE papaya for 36 nutrients at any of the tested fruit ripeness stages.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157510002693#:~:text=Rainbow papaya (Carica%20papaya%20L,70%25%20of%20Hawaii’s%20papaya%20acreage.&text=No%20differences%20were%20observed%20between,the%20tested%20fruit%20ripeness%20stages.
That potential is THEORETICAL. None of those GMOs exist or actually work in practice. They are part of a coordinated public relations campaign to gain acceptance for the real gmos that actually exsist, which are designed purely to sell more pesticides.
GMOs are more than plants. Many of the medicines you take are products of research in genetically modified animals.
Yeah! GMO insulin is a big one, virtually all insulin is produced by an E. coli strain genetically modified to produce exact-replica human insulin. Prior to that all insulin taken by diabetics came from slaughterhouse pigs or cows.
Imagine being opposed to that because pharma companies price-gouge insulin in the US or something like that lol
