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Old 12-08-2014, 04:32 PM   #27 (permalink)
Lord Larehip
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i think it's a bunch of environmentalist paranoia. people don't like that we're ****ing with nature, it scares them. oh well. the future is scary. get over it.
That's a piss-poor excuse for short term fixes that at best prolong the inevitable and at worst hasten our demise.

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at the end of the day genetic engineering is too big a opportunity to miss out on just to play **** safe. it would be like if man never started using fire just in case the fire got out of control.
Much of Europe as well as wealthier Asian countries as Japan and South Korea have either banned GMOs outright or severely restrict their use. Plowing on full-speed ahead with a technology we can't possibly understand all the ramifications of is reckless and irresponsible. Already most of our cotton and corn is GMO. GMOs are a bandage on the problem that we are running out of space to live because there are too many of us. The UN estimates that there will be 9-10 billion people on earth by 2050 and may top 15 billion by 2100. That is simply unsustainable.

The more food we produce to support this ballooning population will only cause that population to continue ballooning. Populations expand as long as there is the food to sustain them. Far from helping, GMOs are ultimately hurting us by allowing us to keep breeding unchecked. We are running out of living space and that is causing other animals to run out of living space as we build over their habitats. We are producing ever increasing amounts of waste with nowhere to put it and that is polluting other creatures' habitats as well as our own:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...science-world/

We can't stop it because most people refuse to admit the true problem. It isn't poverty or disease or lack of food--it's over-population of the human race. This planet was not meant to support 7 billion of us and counting. You've heard of housing bubbles and credit bubbles? We are a population bubble--inevitably it will have to burst. The idea that GMOs will prevent this is laughable and tragic. GMOs are a catalyst to bring it about.

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i do think there is probably a legitimate point to the idea that gmos demand stronger pesticides and **** like that. that is a kink they need to work on, not a reason to hault technology. tbh i think eventually the solution will be sanitized massive indoor grows. but first we need to work out renewable energy or we'll be ****ed regardless of who made the dna in the **** we eat.
The problem is that we grow GMOs as single crop farms. The superweeds can be reduced by varying what we grow through crop rotation but the problem is that this only slows the process of decline and moreover many areas of the world have a soil that is conducive only to one crop. These areas will eventually be choked out. Then we have to grow food to send them and that is exactly the same old problem all over again. Monsanto does not tell farmers the truth because they want to make huge amounts of money. They pushed Roundup as this super savior which is what created the superweeds. Now that they are out there, they will never go away. That genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
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