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cgod  ·  4130 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: reddit post summing up what you should actually think about GMO

I'm with you on this. I would enthusiastically buy GMO products that satisfied my wants and need better than non-GMO crops. Show me better nutrition, quality or shelf life and my money will follow. I would buy GMO crops that were engineered in such a way to minimize farming's impact on the environment if they were the same price as other options.

One thing no one has mentioned is that the United States is the Saudia Arabia of food. I have no desire to buy crops modified to take an extra big soaking of pesticides and there is no rational reason for me to want to buy these products. Organic products, at least in my neck of the woods, are competitive on price and sometimes on quality (sometimes better sometimes worse). I wouldn't want to see a GMO sticker that didn't tell me what kind of modification I was getting but I would be pretty happy to see a sticker with a QR code that could take me to an authoritative analysis of the benefits and costs of the product I was buying.

Before I die I hope to eat a strawberry cantaloupe, I think it might be the most divine creation. I know this will only be possible with science, we are infants now but someday we might become strawberry cantaloupe gods.