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Hm this is interesting. One question would be if any of these approaches is scalable outside a single climate / area- exportable into a repeatable system that w
by awongh 10y ago
Hm this is interesting. One question would be if any of these approaches is scalable outside a single climate / area- exportable into a repeatable system that will help breed crops given the inputs of a specific local ecosystem.
I hear some good stuff coming out of academic style research but nothing that goes beyond small studies for a given local climate, nothing disruptive/commercial. Maybe it's just unsexy and doesn't have that 100x potential, but it's sometimes hard to understand why monsanto et.al have such a monopoly going.
- drakonandor 10y agoWhy assume that Monsanto etc isn't also capable of using data to figure out what works best?
- awongh 10y agoI'm sure they do, but their mo seems to be vendor lock in / price fixing vs. open ecosystem. Nothing wrong with making a profit, but I feel that plenty of their practices are criminal / actively harmful. One of the powerful things about the Elon narrative is that some of the underlying motivations are humanitarian. Monsanto may claim to be interested in feeding the world but it's clear that they don't really have any real interest in doing this beyond making good PR. I believe it's totally possible to be profitable in some of the areas monsanto works in and not be so... evil
- drakonandor 10y agoWhich practices of theirs do you find distasteful?
- awongh 10y agoHere's one summary that's rather bland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases And here's one that's more... opinionated: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm