Climate change is devastating what we have but it doesn’t have to be that way at all!

Take genes from the pest type plants and mix it into the useful type plants so we can have more of the useful plants.

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    All modern fruits and veggies are GMO on some level. Humand has been selective pollinating plants since the beginning of farming.

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    That’s already happening and people are very mad about it because they think the plants are going to eat them.

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      Well, that and the companies doing it are also a litigious scourge on traditional farmers, and are responsible for causing cancer in conventional farm workers, and are suspected to be the ones responsible for the increase in food allergies.

      A hammer is just a tool. They can be used to do a lot of good, potentially. But, if in practice the only thing that hammers ever really got used for is assaulting people, then it might be reasonable for people to give hammers & their manufacturers a bit of side eye.