But its been decades since GMOs are around, and I still dont think I got a straight answer as to its health effects.

And it felt like the anti gmo crowd were the first to cry foul of it.

That just speaks uninformed to me.

I think being uninform is okay, but the willingness to listen and accept the 'truth' is more important

I mean, its a dirty word as of now, but how much of that is from fearmongers, concerned citizens, or from actual results.

We've been genetically modifying our food for as long as we've been growing it. Doing it through artificial selection vs more modern means isn't what matters

It's the end result that does

They say its different

And that splicing is bad because its manmade and unnatural.

There's nothing really to argue against there.

Lots of stuff is unnatural. Doesn't mean it's bad.

Now, the legal practices behind GMOs are something to complain about

Isn't curare natural?

Thats my only issue with it

Mosanto's treatment of farmers does not help with the GMO situation

There's also the possibility of weaponizing GMO bacteria/parasites

I wouldn't go so far as saying that we GMO our food since we've been growing it, rather we selectively breed most of them

All that matters is that the food should go to the people who will need it most. Prompt help will be more useful than delayed help.

But the problem with GMO is that we are not sure of it's long term effects to the ecology and to the human body

SO heres the thing.

I think that's reasons for most people to distrust GMO

THe people who are starving now. Which will help them live longer.

Some food? Or something that keeps them alive longer but will kill them assuming GMOs do that.

Its counting on the GMOs keeping them alive long enough for a better alternative to come along.

Or else there will be no one to help when that alternative comes about

True, I think it's okay to grow it first, based on the benefits that it helps people, until we have a better alternative

But I'm worried for the future where we do have a GMO, but it's long term effect might be hard to reverse or even irreversible

There are a actually facilities that archive seeds of all kind in preparation for emergencies.

The only thing I can see that is ireversible by then, would be reliance on it.

Imagine if all GMOs died, youd have alot of people starving if they fall back to previous seed strains.

Like currently?

Yea

Exactly, we have plants that end up getting wiped out by disease.

Since all of them are the same.

Yeah, biodiversity is important here for sure.

Thats why I said, overreliance is the issue here.

Learn from the Irish

We don't want to replace every crop with one super-rice

You see people talking about cocoa possibly going extinct... There's probably a lot of money for whoever can figure out a way to make that grow in new environments

there is NO consensus about GMO health safety

Because they're NOT necessarily safe. You're changing the organism's DNA to make it a new one. So that means you COULD make something poisonous, but that doesn't mean changing corn to have bigger kernels is going to necessarily be unsafe if that's all that is changed.