⠀ GMOS' Genetically modified feed?

[Weehopper]

Also, without being genetically modified, rice would not be very nutritious, either. Everyone really needs to study up on what exactly GMO (genetically modified) means. There are no chemicals involved. These are plants that have been bred to do things like resist disease, sweeter flavor (white corn), use nutrients more efficiently. Surely chicken people can understand genetics. Every time you cross breed your chickens you are genetically modifying them...just some food for thought.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not exactly.
Rice has been a staple in diets of huge Asian populations for at least 12,000 years. Long before GMOs and their civilizations prospered. High yielding varieties have only been around about 50 years.
Sweet corn was a natural mutation discovered and grown by Native Americans when Europeans arrived on the continent.
Olmecs and Mayans cultivated corn as long as 30,000 years ago. They developed an amazing number of varieties in many colors including black, blue, purple, green, red, white and yellow. Many of these heritage varieties with amazing flavors are in danger of becoming extinct - thanks to the proliferation of GMO corn.
Genetic selection for the improvement of chickens is much different than gene splicing.

 

[FreeRangers4Me]

GMOs are not more

Also, without being genetically modified, rice would not be very nutritious, either. Everyone really needs to study up on what exactly GMO (genetically modified) means. There are no chemicals involved. These are plants that have been bred to do things like resist disease, sweeter flavor (white corn), use nutrients more efficiently. Surely chicken people can understand genetics. Every time you cross breed your chickens you are genetically modifying them...just some food for thought.

GMOs are not selectively bred crops. They take a virus, gut it of its genetic material, inject new genetic material into the virus and inject the new made virus into the plant. The virus then rewrites part of the plant's DNA. Making it more drought or insect resistant. That's what genetically modified organism means. It is in no way what farmers do with livestock or what farmers have done for thousands of years with plant crops.