Re:Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor ...
by defrost on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @02:58AM
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> in many ways making them worse for the environment
Not really, for refence I'm in a rural grain growing area with farm size averaging 4500 hectares.
Grain yields can be increased by many means, as they are, along with breeding for changing climate conditions, which they are (many thousands of ANOVA plots are grown about the region here every year) but the overwhelming practical attraction of GMO crops is glyphosate resistance .. this allows the application of weedkiller during seeding times in sufficient amounts to kill all plants save the crop.
Killing every plant across hundreds of thousands of hectares (with the exception of a very few desired by humans as food for humans) isn't exactly widely considered to be an environmental plus.
Near monoculture has knock on effects on the diversity of animal life, general environmental robustness, etc.
Not really, for refence I'm in a rural grain growing area with farm size averaging 4500 hectares.
Grain yields can be increased by many means, as they are, along with breeding for changing climate conditions, which they are (many thousands of ANOVA plots are grown about the region here every year) but the overwhelming practical attraction of GMO crops is glyphosate resistance .. this allows the application of weedkiller during seeding times in sufficient amounts to kill all plants save the crop.
Killing every plant across hundreds of thousands of hectares (with the exception of a very few desired by humans as food for humans) isn't exactly widely considered to be an environmental plus.
Near monoculture has knock on effects on the diversity of animal life, general environmental robustness, etc.