All right. I'm here with Kevin Folta. Kevin, you are a scientist, a GMO foods expert, and if there is one subject that gets beaten to death online and in conversation and

butchered. I've heard many conversations that I had to just walk away from at parties

where people started talking about what

GMO foods do and what's going to happen and all the horrible things.

GMO foods are probably one of the most confusing and also one of the most hated things in in

the world today but also one of the most common and most misunderstood, right?

I mean, almost everything.

There's a...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson did a video about this where he was kind of explaining,

like the term GMO foods, like virtually everything you see including things that are quote unquote

organic at a supermarket have been modified in some way in order to prolong their shelf life

in order for them to

to taste better, including corn and tomatoes

and oranges and you name it.

Yeah, I think that's the big problem is that you frame this very well.

The problem is that we confuse this idea of GMO, which is kind of a pejorative term,

that we've derived to kind of misrepresent this kind of technology which is really just plant genetic

improvement. Like you say we've been improving plants for 10,000 years as a species.

We find the ones that work best, and we continue to select those particular lines

that have benefits for us, and we've been doing this for a long time.

So everything is different than it was in the wild if you look at the natural forms.

There are nothing like what you see today in the store.

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