As a geneticist, I was having a conversation with a friend in the supermarket yesterday. How they only buy natural foods. I laughed because they had 3 pink grapefruits in their basket. I told them that the only reason that grapefruit is pink is because of mutagenesis. As a child most grapefruit were almost clear. However exposing the seed to high levels of nuclear radiation scrambled its DNA. At some point one of those seeds produced a sweet pink grapefruit.

They were horrified 😆😁😄😃😀

@SpockResists We’ve been altering the genetics of plants since the 19th century. What they also probably don’t realize is that the food they eat now is altered because of the need to produce enough food to feed the people in the US & the animals that give us food. We are also the world’s largest exporter of agricultural products. The people of the world rely on what we give/sell to them to sustain their populations.
#TruthAboutFood
#TransgenicPlants
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/percentage-us-agricultural-products-exported

@Porpentina2017 indeed. It was funny they did a poll with people and 80% of those questioned strongly believed that if a product has DNA in it then it should be labelled 😆😁😄😄😆😃😀😆😂🤣😅

@SpockResists @Porpentina2017
I don't understand why people are so worked up about having DNA in food, when the real menace is lurking everywhere.
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!