Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!!

BeBopaLula@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look into it. Bioengineering is not scary, it’s just a word the some media outlets fear monger

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. If your body can eat it, its done. Its just carbon.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It depends what they’re tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become “Roundup ready,” and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’ve been manipulating the genes of plants since 1716 when Thomas Fairchild first grafted two different things together to make the first hybrid plant. If you like modern corn, you can thank bioengineering.

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  • BeBopaLula@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dunno, I see stuff about there is not even original corn and other items left anywhere except for seed banks.
    Also don’t like bioengineered means they own it. Corps don’t share.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can agree that Monsanto can fuck all the way off.

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Monsanto is dead, Bayer is the devil incarnate.

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    • GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maize was domesticated 9000 years ago by humans there is no “original corn”

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  • GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thousands of year older than 1716 if you count domestication of species like bananas

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