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Re:We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products by jfim on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:55PM (#12894983)
Out of curiosity, what's the issue with growing rice in Texas? Is it that it's not suitable for that climate or something else?
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Re:We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products by Kalium on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:01PM (#12895031)
Basically, yeah. Growing rice requires a great deal of water, and the parts of Texas rice is being grown in don't naturally have that much surface water. It's only economically viable because they have artificially cheap water.
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Re:We’re Scientists, Moms, And We Avoid Non-GMO Products by mamcx on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:29PM (#12897128)
So, the downsides are not hypothetical at the future.

A lot of bad things human do are know to be bad. Is just that humans refuse to accept it.

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