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I’m sick to death of people being precious about produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.

You wanna talk about charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.

But the science is sound.

@Ethancdavenport @ajroach42 Totally - I'm not against GMO food, I'm against the pesticides that get sprayed on them. If GMO is 'more nutritious/tastier/easier to grow/better', great! If GMO is just 'doesn't die when we soak everything in Roundup', heck no, because it's the Roundup and similar I don't want anywhere near me.

I want... Organic *and* GMO? Yeah, I don't know either.

Ethan @Ethancdavenport

@kithop @ajroach42 organic and gmo is totally a thing you can have, and honestly a good combination in my mind.