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What is a Mother Tree ?
Idle dreamer
Miranda Converse wrote:
The good:
Allows food producers to make enough food (even if it's low quality) to bring the cost of food down and feed more people.
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Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
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David Livingston wrote:Firstly I could think of a couple of good uses of this technique - Dates and bananas need help , rice that grows in brackish water would be useful . but it's not going to happen
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Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
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David Livingston wrote: it's the potential for the good of mankind wasted of the alter of coporate greed that upsets me .
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John Wolfram wrote:
Some of the older GMO products have been in use for over two decades now, so the "not enough testing" argument against these products is starting to lose some credibility in my opinion. I'm still rather skeptical about the new GMO products.
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Jason Hernandez wrote:
Since there are people whose reason sincerely is that there has not been enough testing, I would like to ask them in particular: how much testing would be enough? Where is that threshold that would bring you around to saying. "Okay, now I'm convinced"?
Healthy skepticism is a good thing. But there is a difference between healthy skepticism and close-mindedness. You can find a lot of skeptics who have been convinced of something because it met their criteria; but first, they had to know what their criteria were.
I expect that those criteria, that threshold, will be different for different people here. I am curious about what some of those criteria and thresholds are.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Jason Hernandez wrote:
John Wolfram wrote:
Some of the older GMO products have been in use for over two decades now, so the "not enough testing" argument against these products is starting to lose some credibility in my opinion. I'm still rather skeptical about the new GMO products.
I actually wanted to develop this idea further. Since there are people whose reason sincerely is that there has not been enough testing, I would like to ask them in particular: how much testing would be enough? Where is that threshold that would bring you around to saying. "Okay, now I'm convinced"?
Healthy skepticism is a good thing. But there is a difference between healthy skepticism and close-mindedness. You can find a lot of skeptics who have been convinced of something because it met their criteria; but first, they had to know what their criteria were.
I expect that those criteria, that threshold, will be different for different people here. I am curious about what some of those criteria and thresholds are.
Building soil in the Yukon.
Be reasonable. You can't destroy everything. Where would you sit? How would you read a tiny ad?
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