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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had a teacher that said: “at school you’re not here to learn about history and science, you’re here to learn how to learn”

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GMOs are unsafe

Actual usage of GMOs IRL is mostly to promote plant resistance to RoundUp (glyphosate) which is definitely unsafe.

When people list off positions they disagree with like this, they always miss the mark on one or two...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. I have real concerns around GMOs in terms of genetic patents and danger to food security via reduced cultivar diversity. I don't think GMOs are all-bad, but not all concerns about them belong in the same bucket together.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Which kids said this specifically?

[+] [email protected] -19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh , so those who were forced to learn propaganda as impressionable children are then as duscerning and wise adults are no longer able to research, study and come to other conclusions? Huh.

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[+] [email protected] -65 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Dude, you don't believe science. All you do is listen to TV saying what "scientists have said". Don't act like you believe climate change because you read hundreds of peer reviewed papers and built an informed opinion based on stats. The most you did was a Google search, if ever, and then read from a website from a government-funded institution that wouldn't get funding if it said the "wrong thing".

Spare us your condescension. You're just in a cult 🫡

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[+] [email protected] -66 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Well, GMOs are almost exclusively used for extreme mass production of herbicide-resistant corn and soy, for biofuels and cattle feed. All of that is disastrous for the environment (and humans), so yes: GMO bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

GMOs have saved over a billion lives.

Norman Borlaug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wow mass downvote for stating an indisputable truth.

In a perfect world GMO would be to the benefit of all, including the environment. But unfortunately they are instead used to make more money on monopolized ecospheres around specific products. Allowing the use of herbicides the plants wouldn't otherwise tolerate.

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