[–] totes_magotes 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Evolution takes the path of least resistance and what works best. There's a reason that plants are that way. We might not see it now just like we couldn't figure out for the longest time why sunflowers grow their seeds in the pattern they do... but that reason is there.
[–] Plavonica 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
In this case, plants that grow too fast would quickly deplete the soil and they would all die off. We could intervene with re-invigorating the soil in between crops with fertilizers and nitrogen to off-set that issue.
Besides, it's going to the apefricans first, so if there's an issue they'll bear the brunt of it.
[–] BordelonLoop 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
the soil is already depleted. i did not know it but i had mineral deficiency. and that can kill.
[–] Neongreen 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
"While it will likely take more than a decade for this technology to be translated into food crops and achieve regulatory approval, RIPE and its sponsors are committed to ensuring that smallholder farmers, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, will have royalty-free access to all of the project's breakthroughs." Not free for you goy... Get your shekels out.
[–] LoveTheFloor 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Lol in South Africa? After their first harvest their elders will be all “gibs me dat our family needs dat son” and he’ll be left with nothing, as is the cycle in Africa.
[–] bb22 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Good, because I'm not eating Monsanto GMO bullshit, no matter how miraculous the packaging says it is.
[–] Illegal_Alligator 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Its give and take... genetic modification of plants doesnt actually involve viral RNA splicing. Unlike those voodoo head Oxitec mosquitos that accidentally spliced into Zika and released a Zika strain that caused invitro anacelaphly.
[–] totes_magotes 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They literally will not use them. How many times do we have to ship shit to them and them just destroy it before people learn???
[–] ThatsSoJewish 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We just need to steal the seeds from the afrocans and tell no one.
[–] 7e62ce85 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Monsanto engineers them to be sterile though.
That said this gene would spread somehow and like wild fire if it checks out.