The 10 best GMO memes

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This is one of the first I came across. I can’t remember if someone sent it to me after I started We Love GMOs and Vaccines because Chuck was thinking the same thing, or if it helped inspire the page name. Either way it sums up our point. Both movements oppose biotechnology and are selling the idea that “natural” is better and anything made by corporations is automatically evil.

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This is another that has been floating around social media for a few years. On the left is teosinte, the genetic ancestor to modern corn. Those fearful of biotechnology will often claim that artificial selection is natural but genetic engineering is not. But it depends on your definition of “natural.” Artificial selection involves humans selecting traits that are beneficial to humans, not ones that are beneficial to the organism’s survival in the wild. Corn would never have evolved without man’s intervention, there is nothing natural about it. On the other hand, recently researchers have discovered that bacterium transfer naturally contributed to the creation of the sweet potato.

Does that mean genetic engineering using that technique is even more natural?

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Golden rice has been the poster child for the pro-GMO community long before I came on the scene. With technology donated by Syngenta for this public project, the hope has been to use a staple diet (rice) in developing countries to prevent blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency. Greenpeace has been waging war on it since the 1990s when they had an undercover operative working on the project leak details that allowed them to steal the seeds while in transit. Since then they have a nasty habit of destroying field trials, and then screaming about not enough testing. If a project like golden rice is allowed to succeed, the anti-GMO movement would lose their biggest talking point, “corporations.” read more here: The Top 10 GMO Memes