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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 06:37 PM EST |
They need to make it inheritable so that they can mass produce the soybeans
themselves.
Making a weedkiller that kills "everything except soybeans" would
require either a VERY precisely targeted chemical, essentially a custom-designed
virus, which would be ridiculously expensive to produce; or would require the
soybeans to be genetically engineered to survive a chemical that was otherwise
universally fatal to plants.
Now consider that you're looking at putting a chemical which kills essentially
all plants into the environment, and presumably making it fairly cheap and easy
to produce and sell.
Can you say "environmental disaster?" I knew you could. It would make
the relatively minor issues that caused DDT to be banned look like nothing at
all. Think terrorists spraying the stuff over cornfields (or Central Park).
Think what happens to the river systems the stuff gets washed into. Silent
Spring leads into Silent Summer, Autumn and Winter.
This is biology here, not physics. We're talking highly complex nonlinear
systems with unanticipated consequences. The simple, obvious solution is almost
never the right one.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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