GMO Scientists Could Save the World From Hunger, If We Let Them

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9. We are on an unsustainable path

and GMO food will not help. In fact, it is likely to make things worse. Monsanto is the leader in this, and they have developed crop strains that are RoundUp-resistant. The plan of course is that they can spray the entire field with RoundUp and kill everything except the crop. They have added the BT gene to crops to make them toxic to insects. One little problem? Already they are seeing Super Weeds, and Super Bugs...surprise! Ma Nature found a way to adapt. And she will again.

It is nothing short of criminal stupidity to plant vast amounts--all over the world!--of the same strain of crops: one viral mutation, one fungus, one disease and all of it could be wiped out. That is what these idiots are playing with. The Irish Potato famine was a very small example of what could happen: one fungus wiped out the principle food crop for the Catholic farmers and did it almost overnight. From Wiki. "Implicated in Ireland's fate was the island's disproportionate dependency on a single variety of potato, the Irish Lumper. The lack of genetic variability created a susceptible host population for the organism.
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