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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't sure how many crops are actually bred in a significant way, and I didn't feel like researching so I just wrote "a lot".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, i think it is more like thousands of years. wiki origin of species (Darwin)

". . .. plant breeding, going back to ancient egypt"

But breeding and GMO are different tech entirely, even if they might have similar results.

Breeding plants probably started before egypt (they just the earliest with decipherable writing ) even just as an unintended biproduct of agriculture, just planting stuff together then weeding out the plants with less desirable yield, or selecting seed from the most productive plants for next year would do it. t may not hve been conscious or scientific, but it would have been effective over the generations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, GMO is not the same as breeding. Its just that the comment I originally replied to claimed that, unless I didn't understand them correctly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My qualifier for the 200 years or more is because we have some crops that we've only grown extensively for a couple hundred years, and the almost is because I don't know the details for some new world crops such as quinoa and amaranth.