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Her team is one of 20 groups there seeking to use CRISPR to modify crop genes. “All the labs use CRISPR for basic research,” Gao says. “They cannot live without CRISPR.” China also expanded its efforts beyond its borders in 2017, when the state-owned company ChemChina bought Switzerland-based Syngenta—one of the world’s four largest agribusinesses, which has a large R&D team working with CRISPR—for $43 billion. That was the most China has ever spent on acquiring a foreign company, and it created an intimate relationship between government, industry, and academia...
originally posted by: ElGoobero
and this being a conspiracy forum, would it be feasible for the Chinese to engineer a sterile wheat or corn and spread it in the West to cause famine?
I just don't know what this genetic engineering could bring about.
originally posted by: Spacespider
I rather have genome editing of crops then a poison sprayed all over them.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: Spacespider
I rather have genome editing of crops then a poison sprayed all over them.
You do realize if the plant produces its own chemical insecticide you are essentially drinking insecticide?
originally posted by: muzzleflash
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: Spacespider
I rather have genome editing of crops then a poison sprayed all over them.
You do realize if the plant produces its own chemical insecticide you are essentially drinking insecticide?
It depends on what part of the plant you're eating and if washing it can remove said chemicals
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: muzzleflash
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: Spacespider
I rather have genome editing of crops then a poison sprayed all over them.
You do realize if the plant produces its own chemical insecticide you are essentially drinking insecticide?
It depends on what part of the plant you're eating and if washing it can remove said chemicals
Is English your second language? The GMO plants are producing the insecticide in the cells of the plant. Just washing it removes what? Are you good at math?
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: Spacespider
I rather have genome editing of crops then a poison sprayed all over them.
You do realize if the plant produces its own chemical insecticide you are essentially drinking insecticide?
Are you good at math?
originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: Spacespider
I rather have genome editing of crops then a poison sprayed all over them.
You do realize if the plant produces its own chemical insecticide you are essentially drinking insecticide?
originally posted by: AnakinWayneII
And here I thought the PRC was simply going to covet giant parts of Africa and use them as farmland in the effort to continue to sustain its 1.4 billion folks back home on the mainland...
They were specifically modified so that you can't grow new crops from the seeds, as any seeds produced after the first crop are completely sterile. You have to just keep buying more seeds from Monsanto.
Source?
They were even caught numerous times illegally smuggling and spreading Terminator seeds into countries where they were banned.