Animal’s Hump Day News

Happy Hump Day!

GMO corn is increasing yields and decreasing losses due to insects and so on all over.  This is pretty damn close to an unqualified success, folks.  Excerpt:


The researchers’ key findings:





I know I harp on this – blame it on an actual background in Biology – but humans have been genetically modifying crops as long as humans have been growing crops.  Only the methods have changed.  The anti-GMO clowns are of a type with the anti-vaxxers; people who reject the work done by qualified scientists in producing technological breakthroughs that improve life for the entire planet.

Farm life has its advantages.

There are plenty of people in nations with marginal farmland who could benefit from, say, drought-resistant and insect-resistant crops.  Well-meaning but poorly-informed Westerners would deny these people GMO seed crops for reasons that have little to do with reality.  Ironically, many of these same clowns would then lecture us on “compassion” when we hesitate to continue pouring aid money into these same nations.

Can anyone explain to me where the sense is in all this?