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It's a shame the backwards anti-GM laws we have in the EU mean we won't be able to have these here.
by schnitzelstoat 3y ago
It's a shame the backwards anti-GM laws we have in the EU mean we won't be able to have these here.
- herbst 3y agoOr glad that potentially harmful plants for our environment are not easily imported and sold. As long nobody gives a fuck which flowers they buy this year to further kill the local ecosystem I am all for limitations. Source: I live rather remote in the Alps and nature here is nothing like it was 100 years ago. Which is not necessarily bad, except most 'pests' seem to be popular garden plants.
- patates 3y agoI don't care too much for what's native and what's not (perhaps partly because being an immigrant myself hehe) but the real disturbing plants are the ones who out-compete multiple species and add rather large points of failure by ridding diversity. While imagining glowing forests is cool, in the fight against sweeping diseases, diversity is king.
- Symbiote 3y agoNon-native plants are the ones that out-compete the local species. It's daft to apply human politics to plants.
- yreg 3y ago> Non-native plants are the ones that out-compete the local species. Not automatically. Only the ones who survive in the wild and spread (by definition).
- patates 3y ago> It's daft to apply human politics to plants. It was just a joke. > Non-native plants are the ones that out-compete the local species. Usually, but not always. Some non-native species may increase diversity and some native species can turn invasive when the environment changes (usually due to the global warming).
- boxed 3y agoThat's actually changing now. But probably only for agriculture and medicine for now. Which is honestly reasonable.