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Now that there is a strong incentive to produce organic non gmo food, technologies will be developed to increase crop yield given those constraints (in addition
by djg321 7y ago
Now that there is a strong incentive to produce organic non gmo food, technologies will be developed to increase crop yield given those constraints (in addition to existing permissible technologies in organic farming such as drip irrigation, tractors and: https://interestingengineering.com/video/this-flamethrowing-tractor-gets-rid-of-weeds-without-the-need-of-chemicals https://interestingengineering.com/video/this-flamethrowing-...). Sure, yields would always be higher if gmo and chemical pesticides were allowed, but in the long run we can still expect yields to increase.
- syshum 7y agoGMO is not just about increasing yields but also getting crops to grow in wider more diverse climates, something we may very well need with Global Warming Take for example the Semi-dwarf wheat that has been claimed to save billions of people and makes up pretty much all wheat grown today. This adversion of GMO is not based in science but rather F.U.D. I find it amusing that many people that are Anti-GMO are also very very concerned with Climate Change, and laugh a people that question climate change for being "anti-science" then then spread all kinds of lies and misinformation about GMO...