• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Selective breeding is just one of the methods used to genetically modify our food.

    • AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      I think you two have different images in your minds. You say “genetically modify” as in “modify the food through choosing which genes are to prevail”, while the other means “modify genes directly to affect the food”, and in that sense selective breeding isn’t GMO because no genes have been modified, but rather encouraged. You modify the genetic structure of future generations through natural means, not the organism directly.

      Don’t know what scientists say, I just see the other comment downvoted when they have a fair point.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t agree with that.

      The basic notion of genetically modifying an organism implies changes enacted at the genetic level, through artificial means, not biological.