>>23816076>Just a gut feeling. To me it feels wrong so im just going with itYou're entitled to that feeling obviously. I just personally don't get it.
Humans have been bioengineering crops for millennia by selectively breeding things and coming up with non-naturally occurring variants that are tastier or hardier or even edible whereas the naturally occurring variants aren't. I don't see us having the capability to directly change the genetic structure of things to be wildly different from this, it's just a shortcut.