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Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by ncmncm on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:57AM (#24439590)
You don't really have any idea where opposition to GMO foods originates. You guess that it is reflexive and unthinking because that is convenient for you to guess.

There are strong arguments against, not necessarily GMO as a technology, but practically all existing commercial uses of it. Furthermore, each use of it is potentially an independent problem with its own dangers. Thus far the only beneficial use of it I have heard of is "yellow rice", which is not actually available, for purely capitalistic reasons.

Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by eloff on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:01PM (#24444171)
I'm not guessing, I'm summarizing my personal experience with anti-GMO people. You're guessing about my experience and motives though.

Also there's a lot more to GMO foods than yellow rice, so it seems you're proving my point quite nicely.

Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by ncmncm on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:20PM (#24445710)
I am well aware that there are many other uses. That is the problem. Uses that are beneficial are the rare exception.
Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by eloff on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:54PM (#24448593)
They're all beneficial or they wouldn't have gone to this stage.

Maybe you don't think the benefits outweigh the risks, and that's a valid question.

However, the concept obviously has tremendous potential. All the variety of life is after all genetics. Improvements in nitrogen uptake could save tremendous amounts of fertilizer and help the environment, for example.

Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by ncmncm on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:30PM (#24449582)
Everything is beneficial to somebody. Opium distibution is beneficial to poppy farmers, CIA agents, and, earlier, to the British Empire. Roundup-resistant soybeans are beneficial to Bayer.
Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by eloff on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:48PM (#24453698)
And to the farmers, obviously, or they wouldn't pay extra for it.
Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by bluGill on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:59AM (#24442269)
golden rice is not available because activists in courts have done everything they can to keep it unavailable. This isn't capitalism, other than capitalism will not throw good money after bad fighting things out in court.
Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by ncmncm on Friday September 11, 2020 @11:26PM (#24449565)
That is of course untrue.

What is true is that there is little profit to be made in distributing seeds that breed true.

Re:A variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitro... by bluGill on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:36AM (#24451950)
There are plenty of charities willing to do that.