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Internal-Test-8015 t1_it5dfac wrote

Reply to comment by zeocsa in How robotic honeybees and hives could help the species fight back by dadofbimbim

Putting the pesticides in the seeds wouldn't do what your thinking, it would just kill the seed. If you mean genetic engineering where they specifically select certain traits in the DNA to use if they are desired or remove and replace then the only reason we haven't gotten that far yet is because we are still trying to figure out how exactly genetic engineering works and also there is the problem where msny people prefer non gmo's because they worry about the ethics of it and also if it is actually safe to eat because believe it or not but we don't know if eating them will be bad for us and cause health problems/ defects.

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zeocsa t1_it5eaas wrote

Monsanto/ Bayer is already making seed for sale that already with pesticides in it so farmers don't have spray and the seeds DNA change.

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Internal-Test-8015 t1_it5ewq9 wrote

Honestly I don't believe that will go down well but we'll see what happens, and no offense but even if the seeds have the pesticides already in them I'm sure they'll still make their way into the soil/ water somehow. What we really need to do is rely less on all these chemicals for growing food because they are what is destroying the environment and the reason why it is becoming extremely difficult to control pests and disease because they just inevitably overcome and adapt resulting in us having to use stronger and stronger chemicals.

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screwhammer t1_it73k28 wrote

Yes, every child had this DNA changed from his parent. Otherwise every human would look identical, and your wife would look like your mother.

Monsanto isn't doing voodoo, it's choosing to express genes that could happen naturally.

Also, a looot of plants in the nature have some sort of deterrent against thier predators, think nightshades, nettles, gimpie gimpies, pencil cactii, oleanders, daffodils, off the top of ny head.

And many others you regularily use have literal poisonous seeds to humans, like castor beans or peaches, plumps, cherries or nectarines.

You should read up before yelling "monsanto bad, gmo bad". Nature isn't perfect, it's random.

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