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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
I am certain you do not understand...the arguments most often made against GMOs are often baseless or misunderstood, yet the most scary of all considerations is rarely mentioned. By producing a single crop, fish or whatever, and selling that around the world at the expense of the natural crop, fish or whatever, the species that used to exist in an area no longer exists. By virtue of replacement, the assorted strains and species that used to exist in the world no longer exist, except for in a lab somewhere. If a natural predator, disaster or other event harms/impacts the GMO species/variant, there could be massive devastation. Impacting biodiversity is not good...The scientists behind GMOs try to manage this (or so they say), but I am not sure how successful they are.
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Do you not realize that crops are genetically modified to become tolerant to a whole world of natural predators and disasters? And I don't mean 1 ultimate variety, tolerant to that whole world of natural predators and disasters. I mean THOUSANDS of different varieties (...you could almost say... very "diverse" varieties), each one tolerant to different pests, be it insects, disease, weather conditions, soil type, etc, etc. And once you dial in to those categories I just listed, you have dozens and dozens of different varieties within them, each one of them tolerant to a different insect (flea beetle? wheat midge? wireworm? etc?), disease (blackleg? schlerotinia? fusarium head blight? etc?), weather condition (hot? cool? wet? dry? etc?), soil type (brown soil zone? grey soil zone? alkali? saline? etc?), etc, etc.
That's a lot of "etc". Because there are a lot of different varieties developed, for a lot of different regions, and for a lot of different pests. If bio-diversity is what you crave, you better start waving the GMO pom-poms. They are not limiting bio-diversity, they are CREATING it.