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Nitram

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5. I'm not sure what kind of distinction you're trying to make.

Reply to HuckleB (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 07:31 AM

Oct 2016

The choice of seeds, herbicides and other pesticides are all farming practices.

The diversity issue is relevant because if all farmers all over the world start to use exactly the same seeds we will end up with an intense mono culture that could crash if there are no other genotypes of seeds available if and when a GMO seed type is faced with a new disease that wipes them all out. That's the danger of low diversity.

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Anti-GMOer Latham Attacks Kevin Folta With Trumpish Dishonesty [View all] HuckleB Oct 2016 OP

Yeah, that is pretty Trumpish. progressoid Oct 2016 #1

People have the right to abstain from eating GMO products, and they have the right to... Nitram Oct 2016 #2

Biological diversity is a farming practices issue. HuckleB Oct 2016 #3

I'm not sure what kind of distinction you're trying to make. Nitram Oct 2016 #5

Oh, FFS. GMO seeds are not monolithic. HuckleB Oct 2016 #6

Huck, you seem to be the one who is having great difficulty understanding that replacing a diverse.. Nitram Oct 2016 #7

So you have no actual response to the actual content of my posts. HuckleB Oct 2016 #8

You responded to my comment with a complete lack of understanding of what you are talking about. Nitram Oct 2016 #9

Trumpish dishonesty... uriel1972 Oct 2016 #4