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  • His custom crop boosted yields at a time when the temperature was predictable, and the crop could thrive in the easy narrow conditions they were designed for.

    Unfortunately with climate change, the hardier seeds which produce lower yields but can weather more turbulent climates are harder to find because they were pushed out of production by the popularity of his invention.







  • tetris11@feddit.uktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldJust.....why?
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    3 days ago

    That’s free-market naïveté . No one has the time to be an expert in every field to always make the informed choice.

    Do you read the labels on tangerines to check which antibiotics were used against citrus-greening? Do you even know if that’s something you should be worrying about? Is Anti-Microbial Resistance something to legitimately be afraid of when buying tangerines?

    (I leave this as an exercise for the so-called informed reader…)