I would read that as much more about a crop that is not indigenous contaminating their traditional varieties cultivated for centuries, as foreign and GE plants tend to do in every ecosystem. The answer to malnutrition is making a greater variety of fresh foods available, not "buy rice 2.0". - ThreadSky

pseudonymble.bsky.social • 318 days ago

I would read that as much more about a crop that is not indigenous contaminating their traditional varieties cultivated for centuries, as foreign and GE plants tend to do in every ecosystem. The answer to malnutrition is making a greater variety of fresh foods available, not "buy rice 2.0".

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ferret.ing•318 days ago

will you be subsidising that

stephenjudkins.bsky.social•318 days ago

No. None of these people are actually interested in doing the work to get better diets or supplements to the people that need it

pseudonymble.bsky.social•318 days ago

"The work" cannot be done by an individual or a lab. Personally, I volunteer at a local food pantry and support hot meal service for the homebound & homeless because that's what an individual can do. You have no clue whatsoever who "these people" are or what solutions to systemic problems look like.

sababausa.bsky.social•318 days ago

Getting huge # in Bangladesh & the Philippines to eat complete diets is *incredibly hard*, which is why ppl hoped vit. A deficiency could be mitigated by letting ppl grow & eat a variant of their available staple but w vit. A in it

*If* you can gain local buy-in, what in principle is the problem?

sababausa.bsky.social•318 days ago

If the on-the-ground problem is "people are convinced its unsafe", which is false, that goes toward the challenge local buy-in. Greenpeace and other outsiders are needlessly exacerbating that challenge

sababausa.bsky.social•318 days ago

I get that local buy-in is necessary for on-the-ground adaptations to agriculture & diet to be feasible, but this situation isn't just locals resisting outside change, this is foreigners coming in and funding & fueling false propaganda about safety & corporatization

sababausa.bsky.social•318 days ago

In the mid-1980s an int'l group set up a project around Asia to develop mungbean including a large number of new hybrids and it was quite successful

Sometimes people will adopt new crops to help with malnutrition, even ones introduced by supranational agencies

https://avrdc.org/intl-mungbean-network/

lordgaebril.bsky.social•317 days ago

It’s not contamination.

moldybasil.bsky.social•317 days ago

Rice is largely a self-pollinating crop though, and the only studies to my knowledge showing notable outcrossing from gm rice varieties were to wild or weedy rice varieties not heirloom or locally cultivated ones.

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