I think you nailed it. This is looking more and more like socialist do-gooders trying to starve the poor. Just like the GMO hysteria. You can’t bring drought resistant crops into 3rd world regions that would feed the people because... GMO GMO GMO. Then the same people cry and whine about world hunger. What a load of crap.
People have been genetically modifying food since the beginning of farming. Very little, if any of the foods we eat don’t contain some type of genetic modification from the original plant. Look up what original corn or wheat looked like. The same goes for watermelons, bananas and basically everything else. Cows, chickens, pigs, have all been genetically tampered with for tens of thousands of years. It’s all been done to better mankind’s ability to feed ourselves. The socialists seem to hate that.
It seems like every time some scientist looks at the dog they figure out that the dog has been with man for a longer period of time in the tens of thousands of years.
And so has been bred for that long. I think the last I read it was around 50K years.
Breeding equals gene manipulation. The Left will never admit it but it is true. Everything from fruit trees to fruit flies have been gene manipulated by man for untold generations. Even if it was unintentional.