[extropy-chat] Superweed forms

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0%2C2763%2C1535428%2C00.html
> 
> GM crop cross-contaminates with weed to negative results.
> 
> Wow, who would ever have predicted something like that?

This is conjecture. Nobody has done a check of the DNA to see if the
weed actually picked up genes from the oilseed rape. Isn't it odd it
happened on one 'test' location in the UK after no such incidents have
happened in all the other places it is used commercially in other
countries? I would sooner believe that someone's been breeding round-up
resistant weeds as a hobby to seed such 'test' plots with.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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