#we aren't gonna bring up that i start talking abt plant biology as soon as i change my pfp

[rararazaquato]

bitches will be like "uhhh i dont want to eat gmos thats bad for you it isnt natural!!!" as if selective breeding and cultivation isn't just long-form genetic modification. we've been gm'ing those o's since humans invented agriculture. your dog is a gmo; we selectively bred it (aka long-term genetically modified it) into a new organism (i.e. not a fucking wolf).

like, you ever seen the ancestor to corn?

this is teosinte, in comparison to a quarter coin (courtesy of the National Science Foundation). there are, like, -12 kernels per cob and they're super fibrous without a lot of meat in them. indigenous farmers in modern-day mexico selectively bred these things for fleshier, more plentiful kernels until maize/corn was created.

now, does this mean all genetically modified organisms are healthy and good or whatever? i don't fucking know, i'm just some college student who remembered a fun fact from ap biology. but dismissing all gmos as bad and horrible is just ignoring the fact that if it weren't for indigenous people selectively breeding teosinte, corn-on-the-cob would be the size of your index finger.