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In Perspective, Planet: Nature does not follow business plans

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Michael Nagel

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Genetically modified plants - here it is wheat - become more and more part of our diet. Usually the plants are tested before these are permitted for agriculture and nutrition.

There is just one issue - the containment does not always work and now there is one strain of wheat in the wild in Oregon.

A good summary with links to different articles is here.

In the discussion below was a fitting quote from Jurassic Park: 'Nature finds a way.'

A tragedy? We don't know yet.

Best regards,
Michael
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Nicolas Claris said:
Hmmm scary!
We're all modified ; ) but his does not mean that we're not dangerous…
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That's so true and we're all mutt's. Evolution will determine whether or not these new variants can exist or coexist. Nature does this all the time. Just a new tilt of the earth's axis of rotation can give advantage to a handful of butterflies but doom 100,000 mountain sheep. Same with plants. There are gainers and losers every day for myriads of reasons.

For man, having variants of seeds stored in the permafrost is the only protection for food crop diversity.

Asher
 
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