(June 2, 2013 at 11:47 am)Rhythm Wrote: What risks? Agriculture and biodiversity are anathema to each other in principle in the first place. If you're growing food you're trying to grow food, not food -plus 40 types of weeds and insects. This is true regardless of what type of seed you use. If you're growing food-plus you're wasting space and resources - and that's harmful, is it not?
A farm isnt a bubble which has no impact on the surrounding ecosystem. The impact of what a farmer does on his field is not just limited to that field. Why do you think it is forbidden to spray mercury (exaggeration) on a field?
Quote:Where are the longterm studies for non-gmo crops? Seems to me that any invocation of how ag reduces biodiversity refers to non-gmos by default.
I never proposed an alternative.
