Wiscidea raises an interesting question: Could GM be used to reduce the need for fertilizers and pesticides and boost the organic-food market? Would the sustainable-food movement accept genetically modified organic food?
Put aside for a moment the execrable global corporate-welfare copyright clusterfuck that is the current GMO industry.
Imagine instead collaborative, transparent open-source biotechnology, fueled by volunteers or money from progressive foundations, wealthy donors, and NGOs. Unlikely? Yes. But imagine.
Would environmentalists accept it, or is there something intrinsic to genetic manipulation that greens are supposed to object to?
What do y’all think?
