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.

    • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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      um does this mean the more expensive but gmo-free stuff in supermarkets aren't healthier for you?

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          goddamnit i've been overpaying for months. can you recommend any reading?

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            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

    • chapoid [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      How would you be able to spray them with pesticides if they arent genetically engineered to tolerate the pesticide. fucking idiot.