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%20papaya%20(Carica%20papaya%20L,70%25%20of%20Hawaii's%20papaya%20acreage.&text=No%20differences%20were%20observed%20between,the%20tested%20fruit%20ripeness%20stages.
Does that include all the roundup they are sprayed with?
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Organic food means only organic pesticides can be used.
um does this mean the more expensive but gmo-free stuff in supermarkets aren't healthier for you?
Yep
goddamnit i've been overpaying for months. can you recommend any reading?
The podcast "Skeptics Guide to the Universe" and try to find episodes where they talk about GMOs. The host are libs and nerds, but the main guy is a doctor and knows what he is talking about in regards to science and psudoscience. He has a blog
How would you be able to spray them with pesticides if they arent genetically engineered to tolerate the pesticide. fucking idiot.
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Yes.