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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by falcolas on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:12AM (#31837074)
Always worth remembering that our staple crops are already GMO - just done by hand over thousands of years. Corn used to look more like wheat does today. All of the derivatives we've created from the wild mustard plant. Bananas used to have seeds.
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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by rglullis on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:34AM (#31837400)
That is also another "technically correct but completely missing the point" argument used by GMO proponents.

The problem is not with genetically modification, the problem is with the scale that is done.

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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by falcolas on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:41PM (#31838336)
Moving goalposts is a common argument used by GMO opponents. People absolutely do disagree with the genetic modification. All the time. Even throughout the comment threads in this submission.

And if we want to talk scale, do you see corn that looks like wheat being planted and harvested? At all? Of course not - it wouldn't provide enough yield to be useful.

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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by cannabis_sam on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:09PM (#31841241)
>Bananas used to have seeds.

Bananas is also an example of this process of “GMO-by-hand” stopping due to economic reasons, leading to monocultures susceptible to disease, twice as I understand it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively ... by runjake on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:43PM (#31842824)
For the curious:

Early corn: https://tdaynard.com/2020/01/12/how-corn-began/

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