True, but times change and so should peoples' mentalities. I'm living proof that you can survive without it + get incredibly battered for over a decade and still be pretty healthy. It's much better for the planet also.
You're a bizarre one Toby. You want to give immigrants a free house, but you don't care if we thin the numbers of the third world out a bit.
Wheat stem cells is the way to go. Then we do barley. Then we do rape. (The raping is just for fun and nothing to do with crops).
We are targeting specific genes in both cases in trying to create hybrid plants with traits we like, only in the genetic modification case it's a little difficult to get a strawberry to have sex with a potato, so we just take what we like from the strawberry and put it in a potato. Say what you want, but a Strawtato never hurt anyone.
From the last line im going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you arent being serious as it contains the reason why they are not the same
Let's say we went all Nuclear waste on it and made absolutely sure there was no chance of it breeding in the wild, or cross pollinating with native plants - would you still object to it?
What do you mean go Nuclear Waste on it? How do you propose to grow crops in a 3m thick concrete bunker. The simple fact is most staple crops, by their very nature, need to be pollinated and need to grow out in the open air. There are no reasonable containment measures that could realistically be devised.
I was reading a paper by respected food scientist Abarron Cohen of Jerusalem University who said the gains greatly outweighed the negatives, he said he worked with the GM crops at a specialist farm built in California by Google as part of their investment into renewable foods and if the gains outweigh the negatives, then I'm all for it. Who wouldn't?
