Bananas are not technically a GMO + they have been cultivated over several thousand years to be what we have today..You can argue that is still generic modification but it's no different to animal husbandry or the selective breading of wheat and so on that has also been going on for thousands of years.
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Bananas are not technically a GMO + they have been cultivated over several thousand years to be what we have today..You can argue that is still generic modification but it's no different to animal husbandry or the selective breading of wheat and so on that has also been going on for thousands of years.