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1. 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 14:41:58 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   • DaveTLV

   @Surasanji I am a huge GMO supporter for all the good it has brought to starving people. The only legitimate risk I can see is if those species escape to the wild and out-compete native species. With that said for crops it is a non-issue since they rarely grow well in the wild.

   • DaveTLV (surasanji@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 16:04:25 UTC DaveTLV

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     @freemo I was doing some reading on 'wild escape' from some types of GM Corn and Wheat, and typically they are out competed by wild strains because of how they're engineered- like to have herbicidal resistances.

     Those resistances suck up energy and in environments where there aren't any herbicides the environment those plants without the resistance out compete the others.

     But, you are correct. Domesticated species do not, typically, survive well in wholly wild environments.

     🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 repeated this.