VIDEO: Neil deGrasse Tyson says GMO critics need to ‘chill out’

Aside from defending climate science and battling creationists, Cosmos star Neil deGrasse Tyson has taken a strong stand on another controversial scientific topic: Genetically modified foods.

“Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food,” asserts Tyson. “There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows…You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it’s not as large, it’s not as sweet, it’s not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It’s called artificial selection.”

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