We have entered the debate about whether the science of vegetables has become harmful because people abandoned the art of growing their own, making it necessary to mass produce them. They lose something nourishing every day after harvest and the more that they are produced in mass, the less you get when you eat them. The further we go down that road, the more vulnerable we are to mass crop failure, and the more poisons it takes to keep the pests away as weakened soil takes away the plants' defenses.
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A Truce in the Crop Wars
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Avoiding gene tinkering also saves money that would otherwise be spend on lawyers, patents and getting the products through the labyrinth of health and safety hurdles—often 90 percent of the cost of GM, estimates Thomas Lumpkin, head of maize breeding at Cimmyt. The battle over Frankenfoods is sure to smolder on. But thanks to the breakthroughs of cutting-edge agricultural science, traditional farming still has a brilliant future.
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