Genetic Engineers Barking Up the Wrong Trees?

Rick the Red writes "In a commentary titled 'Genetic engineering for better suburbia', Vincent Barnes says, 'Cures for diseases and feeding the world with genetically modified foods is well and good but the real money is in solving the problems of homeowners, the vast silent majority of Americans who toil away every spring and summer fighting pests and every fall injuring their backs and falling off ladders.' Should Monsanto bring us designer maples that don't shed leaves? Would you buy designer grass that grows two inches and stops? Even if you won't eat GM food?"

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Monsanto.

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Should Monsanto bring us designer maples that don't shed leaves?

No. Monsanto should go away. It should die a quiet corporate death.

This is one technocratic religion we don't need more of, thanks very much. Monsanto plays God, and we are its Eden.

Science goes too far. This is an example.