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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Humans don't aim for variety. Our natural instinct is to find the one "best" answer and throw every hat we have into that ring.
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Then why do soi many varieties of tomatoes exist? And corn (maize)? And rice? Roundup resistance is only one example of GM foods. And a first example of doing the same old thing with very new tools. We have only been doing this stuff for 20 years - literally only just started. Since these new tools have only been recently developed, there is plenty of work to be done creating new varieties for all other foods. But naysayers want to attack on some Frankenstein myth that Roundup resistant crops are destroying agriculture like an invasive species. Even Frankenstein was fiction.
So where are the killer bees that would soon destroy domestic bees. Where are the lung fish that would jump out of lakes, flop across roads, and wipe out all domestic fish. Where is this epidemic of West Nile disease. Fear of Roundup resistant crops means we should ban all genetically modified foods? Nonsense. That is only an emotional fear not supported by numbers and still not happening across the agriculture industry.
Hybrids are why the earth feds many times more people than what was once thought possible. Fear of hybrids, using the expression GM, is not justified by facts - with numbers. How was most of the world's rice industry saved? What could have averted the great potato (or potatoe depending on who you are) famine in Ireland? Genetically modified crops.
Our natural instinct is to keep inventing and innovating. To keep advancing mankind. How does banning innovative new crops do that?