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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.
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???
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.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm... superweeeeed.......
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
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.
My, what a stinging refutation. Consider me spanked.