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[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It does not. Most fruit in western world is cherrypicked through generations to increase favourable proportions of f000d.

An unaltered banana looks much different and has less flesh, same likely goes for oranges, I think.

You can’t trust me, I don’t know shit tho. Perhaps take what I wrote and turn it upside the fuck down…

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I like to bring this up whenever anyone argues that natural is better. There's no such thing as a natural food anymore. We made the food we eat as edible as it is through thousands of years of selective breeding.

This is why I hate the anti-GMO argument so much. We've already genetically modified fucking everything.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I also bring this up in people who get overly defensive about their (excessive) meat consumption. I hear the argument that we evolved to eat meat and they want to eat a "natural" diet and this involves eating chicken breast and steak every day.

I mean don't get me wrong, I also eat meat sometimes, but I do realize that there is no good reason to do so. Indeed it is hypocritical of me, knowing how it is both bad for the environment and morally wrong to kill an animal for my consumption when I can get all the nutrients in it from elsewhere, be it "natural" via food choices or "synthetic" via supplements. Because sure as fuck it's also not natural to have cooked pasta with brussel sprouts, tomato sauce, a grotesquely large chicken breast, with a dessert of blueberries and yoghurt in the wintertime. Like, just own it. Just admit there is no good reason other than I like it and that the choice is very self serving.

And yes, bring on the GMOs.

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