Pope Francis Slams GMOs and Pesticides for Destroying the Earth's 'Complex Web of Ecosystems'

[jeff47]

151. I chose mules because people know what they are. People who didn't take much biology don't know

what the F' plasmid is.

They are incapable of existing on their own.

So's the plant we call "corn". Without humans, those giant kernels on giant cobs would fall to the base of the parent plant. Where all of them would compete for nutrients, and none would get enough to reproduce.

THE BIG LIE from the GMO supporters.

Gene Splicing = Natural Selection

BULLSHIT

The big lie is claiming that is what I said.

Another big lie is claiming that farmed products are from natural selection. They are from artificial selection. Humans picked plants that can not survive without human intervention, thus completely thwarting natural selection.

Thus your claim that traditional farming is just like natural selection is actually completely false.

My actual claim is GMOs are another form of artificial selection.

Selective spraying at night WILL make it possible for a honey bee to land on the Cabbage the next day without picking up Bt in its pollen bags

Take a moment to think about how Bt is used. It doesn't kill pests only when it is sprayed. It kills pests for some time. For that to work, Bt has to still be on the plant when the pest eats it. Meaning it gets on the bees too.

Just not enough to kill the colony.

Wouldn't it be better to put the Bt inside the plant, where it only affects insects that actually eat the plant?