GM wheat crops in Australia, Greenpeace takes action

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Originally Posted by Raiden

No.

Emitting a little bit of CO2 is fine, and most weedeaters today run on electricity anyways.

GMOs are very bad for the environment, and Australia has enough issues as it is with things like Cane Toads running around and eating everything in sight.

Genetically Modified Organisms are extremely hazardous, as they can pass along the genes that they have that infer pesticide/herbicide resistance, self-synthesized insecticides, and much more that we are only finding out about in recent times.

Monsanto, the company responsible for most of these agricultural nightmares, makes these plants without any regard to their effects on the people who grow natural produce or the environment.

GMOs are a good way to produce more food with lower losses, but the risks are really too much to consider the benefits; some more recent research has even shown that the proteins and other products that are produced by the artificially introduced genes can cause disorders in people and animals.

Originally Posted by Raiden

How creative. Still though, I'm disappointed. I expected magic ponies, considering your...eccentric tastes.

No, electricty has to come from somewhere too.

However, I was not arguing that electricty was much better. Even if it is being generated by a source that makes more CO2, it's servicing more people, and can be stored in batteries, making it a slightly better choice than gas, for a weedeater.

Burning gasoline in a motor is more efficient than burning coal hundreds of miles away then transporting it to an electric motor.


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