> If there were to be a contagious disease that could rapidly spread via eg spores, it could wipe out the entire population of these crops. That's more or less

> If there were to be a contagious disease that could rapidly spread via eg spores, it could wipe out the entire population of these crops. That's more or less how we started down the GMO path in the first place, back in the 60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_leaf_rust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_leaf_rust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug