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In reply to the discussion: Finally You Can See How Much Added Sugar Is Hidden in Your Food [View all]Major Nikon
(36,927 posts)...or hybridization, or selective breeding, or any other seed development method that was used to create virtually every other fruit or vegetable you eat.
The point here is that many products, almost certainly including many if not most of the grapefruit you eat, were developed with mutation breeding, which involves either irradiating seeds with ionizing radiation or soaking them in highly toxic chemicals in order to produce genetic mutations. There are literally thousands of cultivars produced just that way and you don't know about them because nobody is going to go out of their way to tell you, not because there's some vast conspiracy to withhold that information. Even if you knew that information, there's no one seed development technology that is inherently that much safer than any other. If anything GMO is the safest because fewer genes are being modified and the results are far less random and far more predictable.