imho, crossing four grandparents of the same plant variety or same species of animal can happen naturally and man has done it purposefully. The end result though is that they’ll never create offspring that are the same so you have to keep doing the four way cross forever like they’ve been doing for decades with the Cornish Cross chicken. Seeing a chicken that can’t walk after a certain age is kinda gross too and is a species that could never survive on it’s own. Nature kills things like that.
Before the Cornish Cross, the Delaware chicken was on it’s way to being the official table bird and is a breed that can survive generation after generation. They quit improving the breed once the CC came out so they’re now bred as just another heavy dual purpose breed.
That’s all just breeding which is different than what scientists do with inserting a gene from an unrelated variety or species. Doesn’t mean it instantly becomes poison but it’s different and not something that happens in nature.
The bigger problem is dumping a gazillion gallons of Round Up on the ground year after year while we’re still discovering what all the microscopic life forms and micro-nutrients in the soil do.
Might be a labelling problem, might be a "genetic fallback", I was told. I wish Dad was still around to ask him about the odds of the latter.
The bigger problem is dumping a gazillion gallons of Round Up on the ground year after year while we’re still discovering what all the microscopic life forms and micro-nutrients in the soil do.
Probably true, but I still use it (Roundup) selectively, and with due care in handling (pretty much like I learned about most any potentially harmful mild chemical, in Chemistry Class.). I do try to get as much as possible on the target plants and not the ground, though.