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Comment on Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What’s wrong with seedless watermelons? Are GMOs forbidden by Christian law?
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 2 years ago
niucllos@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Funny thing is they aren’t even GMOs, they’re hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I wonder if they are also against pepper mint.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 2 years ago
🎼 Every seed is sacred / every seed is good… 🎶
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
My parents hate GMO everything because it contains liberal mind control chemicals that turn people trans.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
i hate GMO because it often is unhealthy and often is unethical (sterile so the farmers have to buy new seeds every year instead of being able to use the seeds that came off of their harvest)
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Golden Rice is the most obvious example of how wrong you are on all your points. Golden Rice is GMO to be easier to grow in bad locations and provides a lot more nutrients than non-GMO rice. It is cheap and easy to grow, intended to bring food nutrition to parts of the world that suffer from nutritional deficiency.
This one GMO food solved blindness, diabetes, and death from lack of vitamin A. Many MANY more foods are modified for our benefit that don’t attract people who are scared of the words Genetically Modified. Do you even know how things are genetically modified? Breeding programs that specifically target for traits. No one is going into the DNA to make 5G tracking chips or Super COVID.
Did you know corn was genetically modified in the early 1900s to increase yield per acre?
Did you know the other staple grains like wheat and soy are also GMO? You can eat food without eating GMO and you are absolutely fine.
Stop spreading baseless fear.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
what spreading baseless fear? You misunderstood my comment.
I remember a GMO Tomato being modified to be as large as possible, leading to it having almost no nutrients anymore.
That’s what i meant. Not some “DNA to make 5G tracking chips or Super COVID”
I am actually insulted by this comment. I will have to ask you to stop jumping to conclusions and stop thinking that everyone is a conspiracy nutjob.
Anyways, i am in no way against GMO. What i said is that they’re often less healthy than “traditional” alternatives. That has nothing to do with the procedure itself but rather how the procedure is used and what goals it has. Often the Goal is not to make it healthier, but to make it last longer, make it bigger, in short: make it sell more. And anything that doesn’t directly correlate to sales gets pushed back to save money.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
GMO + Capitalism = Plants modified to be resistant to specific pesticies and herbicides, increasing their use; farmers being sued due to their plants being polinized by GMO plants and so on.
The problem is not GMO, it’s GMO under low or no regulation Capitalism: it’s guaranteed that it’s going to be used in all the wrong ways even if a handful of examples are actually not (and even Golden Rice is patented, which opens the door to abuse if its use becomes widespread).
Most distrust of some powerful new tools of Science is due to how the political and economic environment we live in tends to shape the use of such tools, much more than of the tools themselves.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
You wouldn’t download a seed 🤯
Neon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
can i just say that I’m a huge fan that you’re using your lemmynsfw Account to federate. This is just absolutely hillarious, take my upvote lol
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Farmers need to buy new seeds to not get sued by companies like Monsanto…
But have brain rot, and think the seeda are sterile, like yourself.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
woah there, calm down. What happened to you to make you this sour?
Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No need for insults or disrespect. Please remain civil.
The_v@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A. They have no significant difference in nutrition than non-GMO. In fact many GMO’s have been created to improve nutrition but sadly not used because of dumbfucks like Greenpeace who would rather have people go blind or die than accept GMO food. For example, rice that produces vitamin A and folic acid have been created but never used.
B. The “Terminator” GMO gene was created by the USDA-ARS and was NEVER released. No seed on the market has ever had a GMO sterility gene. Contrary to public opinion, it was designed to be integrated with other GMO genes to prevent the outcrossing and spread into the environment, not as an IP control mechanism.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Also don’t forget the elite side of the food industry (gourmet chefs, etc.), that needs to demonize the more cost-effective things in order to make their own alternatives look more appealing.
Speaking of it, one anti-GMO organization actually shown expensive gourmet food as an allternative to the golden rice.
niucllos@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Not to brag a dead horse but do you know how we get/got novel variation in crops before targeted DNA technology? It mostly wasn’t wild germpasm unless you happen to work with a crop with large amounts of historically documented pools, e.g. corn and wheat. No, most historical breeding programs use mutagens, either chemical or sometimes radioactive, to cause novel variation, grow the seed, see what looks interesting and not too weird, and cross it back into your gene pool. GMOs are significantly less mad science-y than what they replace.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s… not what i mean at all
I remember there was a GMO Tomato that was made to be as large as possible. But the downside was, that it had almost no nutrients anymore.
I think that Crispr and GMOs are really promissing, but the way it is used is not to create the best food possible, but to create the best-selling food
saigot@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Modern farmers generally generally don’t replant their seeds for a variety of non-gmo reasons.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
My deepest condolences.
starman@programming.dev 2 years ago
Are GMOs forbidden by Christian law?
No, AFAIK they aren’t
I think it’s just a joke and not a real movement or something
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
probably same reason why some are anti birth control. kinda playing against gods role by manipulating the natural result.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Should someone tell them why watermelons are so big a delicious in the first place?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Because god put them there as a tasty treat for his most faithful hippopotamuses :)
Neato@ttrpg.network 2 years ago
They need to learn about bananas.
Also like, 100% of all agriculture and livestock. Fuck. Look at what we did to wolves. If god didn’t want us to fuck around with genetics they wouldn’t have made them malleable.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Obviously agriculture is a lie. Cows and sheep and donkeys and chickens and dogs always existed exactly as they do now since that’s how God made them and they never changed.
Or something.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well, the universe was create 6000 years ago so obviously domesticated animals have always been as they are. /s