[Description: A sloped hill covered in green cannabis plants so thick you can’t see the ground through their leaves. More plants are barely visible through mist in the background.]
[Description: A sloped hill covered in green cannabis plants so thick you can’t see the ground through their leaves. More plants are barely visible through mist in the background.]
I love pointing this out to folks who think produce is 100% natural and that GMOs are the devil. Like bruh do you think strawberries evolved to be giant sweet and awesome tasting on their own?
Wild strawberries are tiny and sour because it doesn’t make any sense for a wild plant to put so much energy into growing ginormous berries.
Just cuz we don’t know what genes were selected for by breeding the plants with giant fruit together to make plants any less modified by us. They would never survive without us, we’ve modified them too much.
That said, the shit where they’re inserting whole sequences of dna from other plants and animals is a bit sketchy.
I mean, it’s not like people are just tossing in sequences of DNA willy nilly and selling it at Walmart, tho. I see nothing inherently wrong with crispr GMO crops, so long as we know how the transplanted DNA affects the plant in detail.