Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by _0w8t 3120 days ago
Surely selective breading may bring harm. For example, tinkering with wheat to make it easy to process with machines resulted in kinds where gluten is less tolerant by humans [1].

What is important is speed and scale. I.e. making most plants less nutritional by 5-10% within 50 years is something very new.

[1] https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20664999