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Re:An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to... by worik on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:58PM (#31243050)
> You can write a 1000 year plan with GMO. Try that with mined fertilisers. Been doing agriculture for >10,000 years without either
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Re:An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to... by JadeNB on Monday May 02, 2022 @09:33PM (#31243316)
> > You can write a 1000 year plan with GMO. Try that with mined fertilisers.

> Been doing agriculture for >10,000 years without either.

Not necessarily endorsing the GP's point of view, but most of that 10,000 years was spent with much smaller populations ingesting much fewer calories per capita.

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