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Old 05-16-2011, 07:55 PM   #1
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The legacy of mankind, ironically, will be Monsanto and its GM crops.
The GM crops will immediately disappear. GM crops do not replicate themselves. But herbicide resistant plants are arising about one a year. Already ragweed and pigweed are herbicide resistant due to too many using only Roundup rather than rotating their weed control solutions.

So when a new amphibian species rises from the oceans to become the dominant predator, they must culture ragweed as a food source. And will not worry about Gluton free products.
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Old 05-16-2011, 09:13 PM   #2
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The GM crops will immediately disappear. GM crops do not replicate themselves. --snip
Not so, sir.

That they absolutely *do* replicate is precisely the source of conflict between the factory farmers who use such technologies and the organic farmers downwind whose livelihood is in jeopardy from contamination by the "non-virginal" replicators of the same species.
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