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 was squeamish about bacterial transgenics until I realized that it's not fundamentally so different from what viruses are doing to us all the time, and have been for eons.
I can't remember what percentage of our DNA is viral in origin, but it's a shockingly large one.
Transgenic microorganisms CANNOT be liberated to open air. They are used in contained facilities that should be able to be bleach-nuked if something goes wrong. Yet, spreads happen.
Any approved transgenic organism must be able to be eradicated and should have a limited spread of their genes, which is possible in plants in some cases, but for example, in Mexico where corn was "developed" there are wild species that could be contaminated with transgenes. That's why transgenic maize is not allowed there