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conulyYeah, apparently, so are oranges! Not to fear, though, because they could be saved with the power of... genetic engineering!
http://nyti.ms/14V5KQ6
I'm sure this is going to go over well with the general public. As one commenter said, "Monocultures where disease can spread unchecked; poor soil health where pathogens can breed unchecked; the response "let's make a plan" after the disease is detected rather than before; and then the retreat to yet another technological fix rather than improving the farm practices. These sort of disease events are caused by poor farming practices. If the ecology of the farm is out of balance you get disease. The answer is to fix that ecology. But that takes real farming rather than industrial farming."
Brutal, but probably on the money.
The article has a lot of information in the oh so interactive parts, so I'm not going to copy the text. Instead, you should read it there.
http://nyti.ms/14V5KQ6
I'm sure this is going to go over well with the general public. As one commenter said, "Monocultures where disease can spread unchecked; poor soil health where pathogens can breed unchecked; the response "let's make a plan" after the disease is detected rather than before; and then the retreat to yet another technological fix rather than improving the farm practices. These sort of disease events are caused by poor farming practices. If the ecology of the farm is out of balance you get disease. The answer is to fix that ecology. But that takes real farming rather than industrial farming."
Brutal, but probably on the money.
The article has a lot of information in the oh so interactive parts, so I'm not going to copy the text. Instead, you should read it there.
