Tangentially, it's interesting how exposure to different social media streams can substantially alter your gut feeling on topics. I am, and have always been, pro GMO. To my mind, drought tolerant wheat seems like an unequivocally good thing to have.
However, I have been consuming more video content from the "organic food" and "whole food" movements so that I can get better at cooking vegetables. The idea of introducing a new GMO wheat sparks anxiety in me. Not for health reasons, but because those movements involve a strong push against monocropping. What do we lose by adding an even more successful monocrop into the mix? It may be more profitable to improve monocropping successfully but is that the best thing for the strength of our supply chains, the use of our land, or the ecosystems our land supports?
I think the answer is that we're not accepting more risk with drought tolerant wheat than we are without. But it is funny how radically social media content on another topic (cooking and eating vegetables) can change your thoughts on something only marginally related.
It is also herbicide resistant. The consequence of which is the crop is doused in higher concentrations of herbicides which can lead to negative health outcomes for humans.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 17.8 ms ] threadHowever, I have been consuming more video content from the "organic food" and "whole food" movements so that I can get better at cooking vegetables. The idea of introducing a new GMO wheat sparks anxiety in me. Not for health reasons, but because those movements involve a strong push against monocropping. What do we lose by adding an even more successful monocrop into the mix? It may be more profitable to improve monocropping successfully but is that the best thing for the strength of our supply chains, the use of our land, or the ecosystems our land supports?
I think the answer is that we're not accepting more risk with drought tolerant wheat than we are without. But it is funny how radically social media content on another topic (cooking and eating vegetables) can change your thoughts on something only marginally related.