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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Do GMOs yield more food? The answer is in the semantics - Boing Boing

Do GMOs yield more food? The answer is in the semantics - Boing Boing:


Today, on Twitter, I learned something new and interesting fromenvironmental reporter Paul Voosen. Over the years, I've run into reports (like this one from the Union of Concerned Scientists) showing that genetically modified crops — i.e. Roundup Ready corn and soybeans, which is really the stuff we're talking about most of the time in these situations — don't increase intrinsic yields of those crops. But I've also seen decent-looking data that seemed to suggest exactly the opposite. So what gives?
Turns out, this is largely an issue of terminology...

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