alt Hacker NewsI don't really care if my food is GMO as much as I worry about nutrient content being reduced to cut costs.
What is the incentive here?
I don't want to live in a world where fruit is bastardized into candy, meat is missing amino acids in the protein, and everyone has fucking diabetes as a result and dies at 40.
We don't even need gene editing to have seen this game played before. It happened throughout the previous century. Look at the history of iceberg lettuce and other watery slop like cheap tomatoes.
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There's some compelling reasoning that dwarfism to maximize produce size has contributed substantially to the reduction in nutrients.
Because when the tree fruits, it pulls nutrients out of the rest of the plant. And if there's less plant, then you get produce that's more water and carbon and less nutrient.
My GMO concerns are all centered around the vulnerability of monoculture crops. Having a variety seems to make the food supply more resilient.