Blanket Anti-GMO hysteria is bad of course but there are arguments to be made against things like terminator seeds being used as monopoly tools and pesticide resistant GMOs enabling overuse of them.
Having skimmed through the article mediafactcheckbias linked, it’s kinda weird. At first glance it seems like it’s raising legitimate concern, but it never specifies what.
It sounds like it’s making a case that modified Bt toxins could cause unexpected problems in the ecosystem or for other crops on the long run by targeting more insect species than what it’s designed to, a seemingly valid concern, but never actually reaches any conclusion, instead it uses handwaves like "unexpected toxicological properties " and “protecting public health and the environment” which make it look like they want you to think GMO are poisonous to people without actually saying it.
Blanket Anti-GMO hysteria is bad of course but there are arguments to be made against things like terminator seeds being used as monopoly tools and pesticide resistant GMOs enabling overuse of them.
Or Monsanto seeds that spread and are billable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases
But that’s different from the whole “GMO causes cancer!!!” nonsense.
The folks who get all up in a bind don’t realize that humans have been modifying crops since… well, since we invented crops. :)
Someone posted “maize” to lemmy as an example of what humans have done. Lemmy see if I can find it…
Edit Looks like it was removed for linking to FB, but here’s a screenshot:
Having skimmed through the article mediafactcheckbias linked, it’s kinda weird. At first glance it seems like it’s raising legitimate concern, but it never specifies what.
It sounds like it’s making a case that modified Bt toxins could cause unexpected problems in the ecosystem or for other crops on the long run by targeting more insect species than what it’s designed to, a seemingly valid concern, but never actually reaches any conclusion, instead it uses handwaves like "unexpected toxicological properties " and “protecting public health and the environment” which make it look like they want you to think GMO are poisonous to people without actually saying it.