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Originally Posted by GGG
But as long as you bank the seeds to keep the viable genetic material available for future use you don't have to worry. I agree that the mono-culture is a concern.
This however is not a Pro GMO / anti GMO issue. It is a farming practive issue that goes back 4000 years where the best perfroming seeds were kept for the next season and 500 or so years from when specific traits were sought out and bred for and 100 or so years where different simillar spieces were cross polinated to try to get the beneficial traits of both.
At least now we have the capability of preserving diversity.
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All true, but there is very little supporting GMO as being a solution, only makes it worse. As soon as a superior version of a species is out there, the others suffer, and decline in numbers. We certainly do it to our forests, and pretty much everything else. GMOs can speed up the process.
As others have posted, can genetically modifying the banana make it immune to the fungus? Perhaps, but the point was that limiting the genetic diversity of a species makes massive global extinction a more likely possibility, like the banana case.
I certainly am on the non GMO side, but it is fair to point out where the risk lies.