Posted on 09/20/2019 6:16:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Last week, a Native American botanist argued that the genetic modification of crops is a form of rape. Perhaps the next step in the #MeToo movement involves returning to the low crop yields before the Green Revolution, which saved billions of lives by making food more available through genetic modification, among other things.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-Syracuse, called corn "one of our deepest and oldest relatives." In an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio, she humanized corn as the "Corn Mother," saying, "Corn is sacred because she gives us her children in return for protecting us."
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Native Americans invented hybrids it just took a lot more time to “genetically modify” plants back in the day.
What does the plant think when it wears those flowers?
Does everyone who claims to hate GMO products, know that every kernel of corn we use has been GMO for all of our lifetimes and before that?
and have one less thing to mindlessly rant about?
NEVER!
Well she may be more native than Elizabeth Warren...
Am I a mass murderer for mowing my lawn?
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Maybe you are helping it transition from male to female.
But is it rape-rape?
Creamed corn is murder.
Humans have been modifying plants and animals to meet human needs for longer than recorded history.
Corn is a great example. Wild ears of corn were about the size of your thumb and only contained a few kernels each. Human modification made them the length of your forearm and packed with kernels. That’s not “natural”. That’s human modification of the plant’s genome. She appears to be too stupid to realize it.
I do not see an amer-indian. She looks pretty anglo to me!
Could be Lizzy Warren’s sister or something!
I used shared an office with a blonde blue eyed Chickasaw. He had direct ancestor that’s was on the tribal roles when they were finalized. So he’s a Chickasaw!
For being a botanist, she is pretty damn stupid.....
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