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Big Food lies to you
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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- buy organic food with no preservatives
- look ingredients
- salt (inorganic preservative)
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Because I doubt there is anything we eat that's non gmo, we have been influencing the genetics of plants around us for centuries.
For example saying you only eat organic watermelon is fucking stupid, look at how it looked 2000 years ago and how it looks now.
Genetically modified generally refers to direct modifications to genes done in a lab. As opposed to selective breeding.
Organic often refers to the use of fertiliser and pesticides. So produce that is grown with compost rather than synthetic fertiliser and synthetic pesticides.
It's completely feasible to produce organic watermelons and solely consume organic watermelons. It only refers to how the fruit was grown. Not the variety.
There are GMOs that are created in a lab. Commercial varieties breed mainly for shelf life and volume. Then there is heirloom variety's, older varieties generally breed prior to over commercialisation of farming that has made food more bland and bigger. All of these can be grown organically.
In fact it's very easy for the only watermelon you eat to be organic. Especially if you grow them yourself, as many gardeners use organic methods exclusively.
I hate North America's obsession with seedless watermelons and grapes.
I didn't know seedless watermelons existed. In the UK most grapes are seedless, didn't release grapes had flavour until I had seeded ones.
It's probably because they use the same cultivar that doesn't mature seeds and goes for maximum growth and Resistance to fungi and disease instead of flavour.