August 3rd, 2014 at 7:49PM
What most people don’t know, that they should, is that practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild seedless watermelons, there’s no wild cows, there’s no long-stem roses growing in the wild …

We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals, that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It’s called artificial selection. That’s how we genetically modify them. So now that we can do it in a lab, all of a sudden, you’re going to complain?

So we are creating and modifying the biology of the world to serve our needs. I don’t have a problem with that because we’ve been doing that for tens of thousands of years. So, chill out. — Neil deGrasse Tyson to anti-GMO advocates  (via elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey)

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8,052 notes #i mean obv you gotta be careful and there are a LOT of problems with how it's managed economically but pls
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