/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12165768
modern supermarket vegetables are unnatural.
so is factory farming.
these two statements are not mutually exclusive.

>>7498886
>hey literally splice DNA from other fucking animals and insect species into the plants

Perhaps for certain research applications, but that's not what's happening with crops that are actually fed to people.

>>.... you don't think that's fucked up? ??
No, not really. Two reasons.
1) We already have acheived massive changes in species by simply breeding them. For example consider all the different dogs that mankind created from their wolf ancestors. Another great example is the creation of modern corn from teosinte, pic related. In that context GMOs are not very surprising at all.

2) I realize the difference between a shocking headline discussing a one-time experiment vs. what's actually in GMO crops.

>>6439580
>Do you really not think it's pretty amazing....

When I was younger, sure, I probably would have found that very interesting. But now it's just another drop in the bucket. It's not exceptional because we humans have done all sorts of crazy things with selective breeding, so this doesn't really stand out. It's not that I have no wonder or imagination. Instead it's just yet another example of something that I got over two decades ago.

I think much more significant examples of what mankind has achieved with selective breeding exist. Look at dogs for example. A chihuahua and a Great Dane are both the same species, but look at the massive difference between them--not just in size, but in body type. Corn is another great example--pic related, in fact. The plant on the left is what "corn" originally looked like. The plant on the right is what mankind did with selective breeding. We have also bred fruit that does not contain seeds, fruits and vegetables that are different colors, different sizes, shapes, etc. than their originals did. Not only that, but we do some seriously Frankenstein shit: cut up two plants and graft them together to form a new plant with properties of both the host and the graft. We have bred chickens such that they have lost their motherly instinct and allow the farmer to gather their eggs rather than defending the nest as wild fowl does, and so on. So no, I don't think the eggplant thing is particularly significant because it's just another example out of hundreds if not thousands of cases of we humans using selective breeding to bend nature to our desires.

>>6382107
>Organic corn is normal corn, anon.

Actually no. The normal corn plant is what you see on the left side of this photo. That's how corn actually grew in the wild before mankind fucked with it.

The photo on the right side is what we think of as corn today. It's not a GMO, but that's how much corn has been changed by mankind via traditional farming methods.

Anyway, You seem to be arguing semantics. The point remains unchanged. It is easy to avoid GMO corn by buying organic corn.

>>6352812

What makes you think the exact same species from the paleolithic period are alive today?

You do know that the majority of the plants we eat today are special cultivars that don't exist in nature, right?

See pic related? Teosinte is the natural form of the corn plant. The thing on the right is what we think of today when we hear the word "corn". Paleolithic man would have the plant on the left. We have the plant on the right.