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Why we need GMOs to survive climate change

Genetically modified organisms get a bad rap for many reasons, but we’ve actually been genetically altering what we eat since the dawn of human history.

“For 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops,”explains UC Davis plant pathology professor Pamela Ronald.

“Today virtually everything we eat is produced from seeds that we have genetically altered in one way or another.” (You can read more about Ronald’s thoughts on genetically engineered food here.)

Right now her focus is on rice. It’s one of our basic crops and without it, we would struggle to feed much of the world.

With climate change, we’re seeing an increase in flooding in places like India and Bangladesh, which makes it harder to grow this important food staple.

So Ronald and her lab have developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice. It’s known as Sub1a or “scuba rice” and millions of farmers in South Asia are now growing it in their fields. 

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Today is National Food Day, a day dedicated to hunger awareness. But as we focus on food insecurity, we need to talk more about how global warming will make the problem worse.

As our climate continues to heat up, it has huge impacts on what foods we are able to grow. Will our crops be able to survive droughts and floods? The University of California leads six labs that are working to develop other climate-resilient crops including chickpea, cowpea and millet.

Find out what other scientists are doing to improve our food.

Your daily reminder that GMOs are not evil - profit-mongering corporations are.

This is literaly what happens in nature. this gene ‘might’ have been able to transfer eventualy over time. so instead of waiting we just give the genes a little nudge,

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Hey wanna hear a joke

Randy Pitchford thinks Borderlands’ artstyle is holding it back

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lmaooooooooo

Randy, no

it’s one of the ONLY thing that people find endearing about the goddamn franchise left

RANDY YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER YOU STOLE THE ART STYLE AND DIDN’T PAY YOUR LEAD ARTIST, HELL THE ORIGINAL REASON BORDERLANDS WASN’T RELEASED ON OG XBOX WAS BECAUSE OF THE BLAND ARTSYLE

The funniest thing is that we have plenty of evidence that borderlands would look like crap without the art style because the art style shift didn’t happen until later in development

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Ooh yeah this isn’t the most visually boring thing I’ve ever seen

I know I made a joke that Randy is slowly going insane after the failure of Battleborn but I can’t make jokes about something that’s actually happening what the fuck

arvalli:

Just out of sheer curiosity

rob-boss-the-painter:

theodorebvndy:

tagurself:

what the fuck did I just watch

this is what having psychosis is like

i just astral projected into the 37th dimension

zaryahell:
“There’s a story here but honestly it’s better like this.
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zaryahell:

There’s a story here but honestly it’s better like this.

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nothing tumblr could post on r/ambien will ever be as funny as this:

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“ they got mad
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Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this about his father, who died of cancer on September 1st, 1982. At his...

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they got mad

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Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this about his father, who died of cancer on September 1st, 1982. At his father’s funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie’s room, Billie simply said, “Wake me up when September ends.”

So I’d be angry too if people kept this shit up every single year.

i am going to reblog this until i die

…oh

Seriously its just not funny and I wish people would stop