Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: 109 Nobel Laureates sign a letter slamming Greenpeace. [View all]progressoid
(49,944 posts)None of the links above relate to "a corporate model seeking to artificially increase their control of market mechanisms via a perverted intellectual property regime". While that may be an issue for them, they instead decided to link to how GE rice baaaaad.
If Greenpeace has a solution, why don't they implement it. They have a decent budget (400 million dollars). They could at least put a little of that toward a small test project and show us how its done.
Or better yet, they could open up to potential good that genetic engineering can do. Golden rice's success or failure notwithstanding, we are going to need every tool available in the coming years. Pretending we can go back to old school farming when the world continues to grow and change at an alarming rate is foolish. New technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 can help us address issues like drought and disease much more efficiently.
Yes, corporations are going to try to make money off of it. But that's pretty much true of nearly every innovation.