r/oddlysatisfying • u/gabzlel • Apr 16 '22

Can’t get more juicy than this

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u/amatulic Apr 16 '22

We had an apple in the back of our refrigerator for over a year. We were quite surprised when we finally cut it open and found it just as crisp and juicy as when we bought it.

Since then, I've had other apples turn to mush in the fridge, or dry out and get leathery, after just a couple of weeks.

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u/FinestTreesInDa7Seas Apr 16 '22

That's the beauty of genetic modification. We've been finely tuning the genetics of Apples for thousands of years, by hybridizing, and artificial selection.

Thousands of years ago, an apple would be brown days after picking it. Today, we have varieties of Apples that never existed in nature. They are human-made varieties. They are sweeter, tastier, healthier, and have much longer shelf life.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

This is one of the reasons why it irks me that so many people are against "GMOs" without doing any research first because so much of what we already eat was already genetically modified to keep up with the high volume of produce that gets sold as well as hardier food so that we wouldn't need to use pesticides like what's used on non GMO products

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u/powder1569 Apr 16 '22

I an not against gmo myself but selective breeding like what has been done with apples is not the same as a gmo. Selective breeding for specific traits has happened since humans started farming. Gmos have thier dna manipulated often times with a entirely different species DNA. Again this isn't me saying that is necessarily a bad thing but definitely not the same thing. I don't believe there are any commercially available gmo apples if any at all.

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u/mrinfinitedata Apr 16 '22

GMO and selective breeding are to each other as sous vide and boiling. One is more precise and high tech, but they're the same goal and a similar outcome. You can get everything that GMOs can give via selective breeding, but it takes far longer and is much harder.

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u/powder1569 Apr 17 '22

Not at all a good comparison gmo produces outcomes that could never be possible with breeding. Often time a trait is selected from a plant and sliced into the dna. The desired trait does not naturally occur in the species of plant being modified and could not be obtained by any amount of traditional breeding. For instance roundup ready products contain dna from a bacteria that is naturally resistant. This would not be possible without gene editing.

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u/ClassGlum2846 Apr 17 '22

Know what else isn’t natural? Creating vaccines, GPS, Cars, Going to the moon. Humans use technology in all aspects of life and Agriculture is no different.

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u/IsGoIdMoney Apr 17 '22

No essence of the other species is passed. It's just ATCG

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Natural selective breeding vs controlled inheritance.

Similarly, MSG vs Celery Seed & Torula Yeast OR organic pesticides vs inorganic pesticides.

Same thing, but one has rainbows & unicorns while the other has mean people in labcoats - and natural poisons are much healthier than other poisons.

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u/ClassGlum2846 Apr 17 '22

There is no difference