I don’t mind the reply but when you completely cover my reply you are hiding information from the public I noticed that you did not speak on antibiotics resistant genes being spliced into tissue cultures, and three generations of that plant planted in the same area created antibiotic resistant genes in the soil bacteria around the plant, I can’t imagine what it would do if you were eating it for 20 years. I see you’ve covered what a lot of people have said you can reply without covering up what others have to say. Tell me why are you afraid for your customers to know that you may be doing modifications? Are you afraid those customers will go to a different brand so instead of changing your method to meet the customer’s desire you just hide the information what kind of business are you? Genetically altered plants has been a wonderful gift to humanity it’s fed a lot of people, it is okay to admit that some of it is not so good, I’m at some of it may very seriously harm people. It is also okay to admit that the beginning of this research wasn’t intended to hurt people it was intended to feed people and it has been a damn good job of doing that. It’s okay to say you’re not perfect nobody’s going to take your birthday.
I don’t know what you’re talking about with all that antibiotics tissue culture stuff. Definitely don’t know if you are specifically saying I make GMOs or you’re just using a generic “you” when you say “your customers”. I’m just a regular US citizen living in a town with a lot of farms in Minnesota who can’t stand seeing people spread fear and misinformation about the farming industry. I don’t want vital Ag tools banned for no good reason bc of paranoia and ignorance. I’ve never worked for an Ag company, I’m not a farmer. I’ve only done some gardening, follow Ag scientists and farmers to understand the topic more than the average person and have a science degree that helps me understand science topics and how to separate factual information from BS.
NO GMO and selective breeding are completely different. Gmo plants can be genetically modified with genes from kingdoms entirely which could never be achieved naturally and there is not enough solid long term research to show it’s safe and if those GMO corn crops pollinate with non GMO crops we don’t know how that will result in the long term.
DNA is the same for all life. There is no “plant DNA” or “animal DNA”. It’s just DNA. Please don’t claim to know things outside your education or assume any non-DNA expert source is correct.
GMO crops have existed a long time and zero people or animals have been affected by it. There’s no logical reason anyone would be. GMO crops go through WAY more regulatory hurdles than non-gmo even though the breeding method results in way fewer gene changes than any other method.
Well yes it’s the sequence of genes that is the difference in all DNA for living organisms but that doesn’t mean manipulating the content and expression of that DNA would be safe.
Yes there are short terms studies that say it’s generally safe but there are no long term studies AND most importantly a significant portion of the studies supporting the safety and efficacy of gmo crops have been funded by the corporations that develop and sell these products.
When independent studies have shown potentially negative findings about GMOs or associated chemicals like glyphosate, they have often been met with heavy scrutiny and pushback from industry, and in some cases, researchers have faced legal or reputational consequences.
Major GMO-producing companies, like Monsanto (now part of Bayer), Syngenta, Dow AgroSciences, and DuPont Pioneer, have historically funded many of the safety studies on their own products. In some cases, these corporations have been accused of controlling access to their patented seeds and GM products, which limits the ability of independent researchers to conduct their own trials unless they collaborate with the companies or receive explicit permission.
I’m not saying they are 100% bad, but there needs to be more unbias research and long term studies.