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GM Crops Create Herbicide-resistant "Superweed"
An anonymous reader writes "According to this article GM crops under test in the UK have cross pollinated to weeds, giving them the same resistance to herbicide as the GM crops. The article also mentions that this has been reported as occurring in Canada, which like the US is well past the test stage and allows widespread use of GM crops. What's worse, in Canada crop rotation has conferred multi-herbicide resistance to some of the weeds!"
Sounds like something from Cheech and Chong!
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
The modern scientific community's attitude is a lot like my 8 year old brother at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Guard: If you touch that sarcophagus, I will throw you and your mother out of the museum. Brother: *eyes sarcophagus* Guard: Just step back from the sarcophagus. Don't touch it. I will throw you out. Mother: DONT DO IT. He's serious. Brother: *raises hand* *looks guard in the eye* Brother: *touches sarcophagus* Guard: *escorts my brother and mother out of the museum* True story.
So.... their car sales and stock values are tanking so now they plan to retailiate against the world by inventing superweeds? ;-p
I feel a little like Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, but for God's sake (literally) let's let evolution/intelligent\ design/or\ whatever do what it has for the past whatever years.
Next we're going to have Herbicide-resistant children...and then how are we going to control population???
Please kill 5 billions of humans and this problem will be solved.
They'll just whip up a genetically modified herbicide to kill the new superweed. Genetic engineering: is there any problem it cannot solve?
I for one welcome our herbicide-resistant overlords
Not true. A "great crisis" is not necessary for evolution at all. It also happens when hot chicks hang out with guys like me and avoid the likes of you.
If the chicks are hanging out with you, there must be a great crisis causing that.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Faster than a senior citizen.
More powerful than a trip with Jerry Garcia.
Able to beat Grand Turismo in a single round.
Look! Sitting on my couch!
It's an herb. It's mary jane. It's Superweed!
Yes, it's Superweed - strange strain from another DNA who came to my living room with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal plants. Superweed - who can change the course of mighty lives, make people eat Taco Bell with their bare hands, and who, disguised as Purple Haze, a mild flavored hash from 1967's hippie's Summer of Love, fights the never ending battle for Peace, Love and the Ultimate Frag.
Do what I say, cuz I said it.
-Meatwad
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm... superweeeeed.......
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
Come on, "echosystem," "premotes," "inhabbitants"...? One refers to sonar, one refers to Maleen conning the near future, and one is clearly misspelled because the author no doubt was referring to inhobbitants of the Shire, probably Hamfast Gamgee's Saturday Grange Meet and Babble. I'm glad he's reading a book though. Mod up!
``Tension, apprehension & dissension have begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The Demolished Man_
Canada farmers next door to test fields were suid while they were the victim of cross polination
/etc/sudoers...
Simple solution then. Just edit
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has made his presense known unto us! He has touched this weed and conferred upon it this immunity to the unbeliving farmers' poisons so as to punish those who refuse to admit his existance!
All praise the flying spaghetti monster, who though this weed, has touched us all with his Noodly Appendage!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Are you kidding? New species with new traits can not just randomly occur. What really happened is that our Intelligent Designer decided to create a new superweed....
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
There's no mention of this in the Bible. It almost smacks of Evolution, so of course it can't be true.
I want to play Free Market with a drowning Libertarian.
It gets far worse. Let's say a GM crop was planted next to your farm. Due to wind, bees, eh, nature the GM plants spread to your field, and soon you're growing GM plants. And then you're sued for stealing the GM crop.
Naw, that's just uncreativity on the part of the farmer... He should have charged rent, say $150,000 per day per plant, for hosting other people's seedlings. Put a sign up stating this, and if you wish to participate, just allow your seeds to blow into the area.
My, what a stinging refutation. Consider me spanked.
Should have gone with Ford.
This is the only time when I think having a lot of lawyers might be a good idea!