Hillary Clinton is Just Plain Wrong on GMOs

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46. He was a traditional plant breeder

and this getting the plants to put most of their carbon into seed/grain rather than stem and root is a great way to turn chemical fertilizers into food, as long as those fertilizers are inexpensive. But as the cheap nitrogen fertilizers become less cheap and eventually run out, plants whose roots are incapable of searching the soil for nutrients and water will no longer be able to produce these high yields.

Plant breeders are always breeding for what works at the time. The need for plants whose roots are capable of foraging for water and nutrients will return and the plant breeders will breed for these plants, and the yield of the grain will go down, as the sequestered carbon into the soil will go up. But a genetic engineer, only bringing a single gene into the plant, from a foreign source, with the tools of plasmids and promotors cannot address this sort of stuff. We are dealing with many multiple genes regions. The science of understanding genes is very very different than infecting plants with foreign genes and markers such as antibiotic resistance (I mean how good of an idea is this???). Science requires knowledge and testing, none of which the plant gmo folks used.

I had a conversation with the president of Genentech back in the early 90's who was convinced that the idiotic plant genetic engineers were going to destroy the entire industry with their rush to market of products untested. In the pharmaceutical world, all the genetically engineered products are quite properly tested and nothing is released into the environment to possibly infect other organisms helter skelter. But this is what these jerks did in the agribusiness world. I remain shocked that they got away with it. I do not know if our soils will ever recover. thank goodness the Europeans, Japanese and most of the rest of the world slammed the brakes on the entire industry.