• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Because you are designed to seek out salt and sugar as a survival trait; then decided to mass produce it and put it into everything. Now your tastebuds have been ruined, even the standard apple/banana has been genetically modified to have more sugar

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Genetically modified? That’s a stretch.

      Like many other cultures, bananas and apples were selectively reproduced to obtain fruits with more to eat. Corn, carrots, every single kale and cabbage, potatoes, oranges and even strawberries can go into this basket.

      The wild banana has almost nothing to eat, being filled with large seeds and we can still find wild apples, by nature very tart but still edible. Every single cereal we plant and harvest today was originally nothing more than a wild grass.

      But to call the work of millenia and who knows how many generations of farmers genetic modifications is a bit over the top.

      GMOs are very recent introductions and normally for obtaining pest, drought or disease (more) resistant plants.