Hey curious what others think, I'm a big believer in sustainable & permaculture based agriculture but also have heard of some instances where its helped, idk maybe that's monsanto propaganda I turn to you chacha to educate me.
"Golden Rice is a covert attempt to win wider approval for genetically modified food and will not solve problems of malnutrition. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) – like other problems on malnutrition and hunger – is not caused by the lack of Vitamin A in food, but by people's inability to achieve a balanced diet." https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5177-golden-rice-is-unnecessary-and-dangerous
"Rainbow papaya (Carica papaya L.) is a genetically engineered (GE) cultivar with resistance to papaya ringspot virus (PRSV). This cultivar currently accounts for about 70% of Hawaii's papaya acreage. ... No differences were observed between GE and non-GE papaya for 36 nutrients at any of the tested fruit ripeness stages."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157510002693#:~:text=Rainbow%20papaya%20(Carica%20papaya%20L,70%25%20of%20Hawaii's%20papaya%20acreage.&text=No%20differences%20were%20observed%20between,the%20tested%20fruit%20ripeness%20stages.
i think they can be good but the way they're used now can also be really bad. letting companies like monsanto have control over the genomes of our food is terrible and there was that vice article posted here recently about those new "cotton candy" grapes with a user agreement on the side of the bag saying you can't try to grow your own. creating "roundup ready" crops is really bad too, it increases the amount of roundup used that then contaminates the ground and water, and i don't want to eat plants that are doused in carcinogens. monocultures are also bad.
creating more hardy crops or more nutritious food is definitely a good thing, but they shouldn't be owned by companies like monsanto