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Re:I should have loved biology by animal_spirits on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:53AM (#25150088)
Yes exactly. The fruit might be the same at the end of the day; red, round, juicy. But there is more that goes into growing fruit than just reaping the end product. There is fertilizers which run off into lakes [1], pesticides and herbicides that get into the soil increasingly making soil less fertile [2], market cornering tactics like seed patenting [3]. I think it is more important to study how to make nature do the work of growing food abundantly with as little side-effects as possible, instead of engineering it to with no caution for side-effects.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizer-runoff...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC91132/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.

Re:I should have loved biology by Attained on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:44AM (#25150628)
Look up mutagenic breeding, the idea breeders are taking a more natural approach is nuts.

I do agree we should invest more heavily in tech like bug resistance to reduce necessary pesticides.