THEYRE FREELANCE CONTRACTORS AND PAY FOR THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT :bird-screm-2:
THEY STILL FOLLOW SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS DESPITE THE SULFUR EVISCERATING THEIR LUNGS :amerikkka-clap:
THEYRE FREELANCE CONTRACTORS AND PAY FOR THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT :bird-screm-2:
THEY STILL FOLLOW SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS DESPITE THE SULFUR EVISCERATING THEIR LUNGS :amerikkka-clap:
I'm pretty ambivalent on the GMO front - I think if it were treated more as a common good (developing and releasing GM strains by public research institutions to farmers for free instead of on a for-profit business model that has to be protected by draconian IP laws, e.g.) and gene targets were selected more in terms of sustainability and nutrition instead of finding ways to cram a small set of crops even further into our industrial monocropping production system, it would have less opposition.
But even if you're opposed on principle, organic crops are often fertilized with conventional corn and soy. So that's fun.
So personally I have a couple of GMO stuff I've planted but theyre actually designed to reduce fungal growths on native plants in order to bolster beneficial pollinator populations. They were designed by some universities to stop the monoculture issues and overuse of fertilizer. I like them cause they pretty and require no effort to plant and use :shrug-outta-hecks: Hummingbirds love this shit and snort it like crack
There's tons of really cool potential applications for using genetic modification to improve diversity. Are you familiar with the American chestnut reintroduction project?
I'm vaguely aware of it. IMO the big boost for GMOs is it lets us avoid all of these dangerous (environmentally and for human health) situations for mining. The idea that GMOs can cause cancer or something which is widely touted is very nebulous, also the idea that 'natural is better' is pretty psycho because plenty of 'natural things' can kill you within a weekend.
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It's pretty cool; the idea of the project was to engineer a way around an introduced pathogen that the species was never able to adapt to naturally and re-establish it in the wild.
I agree that the health risks are overblown - most of the time the gene expression isn't even in the part of the plant that gets eaten. The hysteria is silly. But at the same time herbicide resistant crops are known to encourage higher herbicide applications so I guess there's a case for indirect impacts :shrug-outta-hecks: