Would you drink genetically modified beer?

[Nearly Sane]

Yes.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67193176

[jeremyp]

That would depend on the reason why the yeast was genetically modified. For example:

Berkely Yeast edits the DNA of yeast strains to remove or add a certain gene. One of its products, its Tropics yeast, has been tweaked to provide the taste of passion fruit and guava.

I wouldn't drink that genetically modified beer, mainly because I wouldn't drink such a flavoured beer even if the flavouring came from actual passion fruit and guava.

[SteveH]

I would not knowingly drink or eat genetically modified anything.

[jeremyp]

I would not knowingly drink or eat genetically modified anything.

But you do. Practically everything you eat is genetically modified.

[SteveH]

But you do. Practically everything you eat is genetically modified.

Nonsense. You are no doubt going to reply that all modern crops and livestock have been selectively bred for thousands of years, which is true, but that's not what is meant by the phrase "genetic modification", which refers to splicing in completely foreign genes in a laboratory, eg glow-worm genes into plants to make the plants glow, which could never happen with traditional selective breeding.