This is an interesting post found during my blog search today. Reach it in its entirety .
“What if I could buy a totally disease-resistant tomato plant? It would have to produce tomatoes that have great taste, of course, since that’s the reason I grow them.
But even if the taste was only equal to what you typically find in the supermarket, would a disease-free plant help farmers raise more tomatoes and — potentially — lower the price, helping families at the lower end of the economic scale?
This sort of thing is already happening with grains. Does it help or hurt developing nations?
And are those humanitarian goals worth opening what at this point seems to be a Pandora’s box? Similar questions are posed in today’s about ‘geoengineering.’”
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