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The NFU backs gene editing. Do you ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hjcarter" data-source="post: 7732629" data-attributes="member: 81702"><p>No, I don't support it for two reasons.</p><p></p><p>1) This will be snapped up by a few corporations that will end up controlling the market. First step - buy it because its resistant/ higher yield/ whatever. Second step - buy it because everyone else has and you can't compete otherwise. Third step - buy our inputs/ activator/ whatever because it doesn't work without it (we twiddled with another gene). At this point you have some faceless corporations controlling your costs and margins as well as the wider supply.</p><p></p><p>2) I hold a personal view that nature is ambivalent to humans and nature pretty much knows best. Cross/ selective breeding is one thing but transplanting parts from one species to another or switching one gene on or off when you don't fully understand what the others do seems like asking for trouble.</p><p></p><p>I may seem like a Luddite and conspiracist but personally, when I lift my head and look at the world around me I believe that pretty much all the woes and ills originate with humans so for that reason I think the less we meddle the better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hjcarter, post: 7732629, member: 81702"] No, I don't support it for two reasons. 1) This will be snapped up by a few corporations that will end up controlling the market. First step - buy it because its resistant/ higher yield/ whatever. Second step - buy it because everyone else has and you can't compete otherwise. Third step - buy our inputs/ activator/ whatever because it doesn't work without it (we twiddled with another gene). At this point you have some faceless corporations controlling your costs and margins as well as the wider supply. 2) I hold a personal view that nature is ambivalent to humans and nature pretty much knows best. Cross/ selective breeding is one thing but transplanting parts from one species to another or switching one gene on or off when you don't fully understand what the others do seems like asking for trouble. I may seem like a Luddite and conspiracist but personally, when I lift my head and look at the world around me I believe that pretty much all the woes and ills originate with humans so for that reason I think the less we meddle the better. [/QUOTE]
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