This article is just plain stupid. Pests will eventually develop resistance to anything. You can't turn off evolution! To assume that GMO plants somehow avoid this inevitability is just a strawman that can then be used to 'prove' how awful GMO plants and their associated producers are. If there is a villain it is mono-culture. But mono-culture is just another risk/reward tradeoff. Mono-culture makes farming much more economical but gives evolution a much larger population of genetically similar individuals to operate on.
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This article is just plain stupid. Pests will eventually develop resistance to anything. You can't turn off evolution! To assume that GMO plants somehow avoid this inevitability is just a strawman that can then be used to 'prove' how awful GMO plants and their associated producers are. If there is a villain it is mono-culture. But mono-culture is just another risk/reward tradeoff. Mono-culture makes farming much more economical but gives evolution a much larger population of genetically similar individuals to operate on.