RE: What do you think of GMO's?
October 13, 2014 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2014 at 5:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The potato bit was a freak occurrence (for them) coming at a time when people didn't really understand what was going on. You can manage blight with roundup....at a few bucks a gallon. 
@Chuck, yeah - though clearly we can make the case that it's already at a point where it doesn't really matter if it gets "worse", as it's already crossed the threshold into territory we might describe as 6 of one, half dozen of another. Right now there are a handful of useful varieties in each major crop(a couple of which are already GMO, obvs). The promise of GM is that there may one day be One™. I think that would be great (from a production standpoint), provided that we maintain a thriving seed industry, people growing novel varieties as a way to put blocks in the GM toolbox (and as insurance, obvs).
@Chuck, yeah - though clearly we can make the case that it's already at a point where it doesn't really matter if it gets "worse", as it's already crossed the threshold into territory we might describe as 6 of one, half dozen of another. Right now there are a handful of useful varieties in each major crop(a couple of which are already GMO, obvs). The promise of GM is that there may one day be One™. I think that would be great (from a production standpoint), provided that we maintain a thriving seed industry, people growing novel varieties as a way to put blocks in the GM toolbox (and as insurance, obvs).
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