Comments on: Terminate this arrant nonsense. Now. http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2007/10/29/terminate-this-arrant-nonsense-now/ I never touched it, honest! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:04:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jeremy http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2007/10/29/terminate-this-arrant-nonsense-now/#comment-8894 Jeremy Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:59:29 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2007/10/29/terminate-this-arrant-nonsense-now/#comment-8894 Like you, I can't see how Terminator seeds would entirely swamp a farmer's field. and don't forget, these have to be 1st generation Terminator seeds, as bought from the Evil Corporation. The offspring of Terminator plants will terminate.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8894','Jeremy'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8894','Jeremy','Like you, I can\'t see how Terminator seeds would entirely swamp a farmer\'s field. and don\'t forget, these have to be 1st generation Terminator seeds, as bought from the Evil Corporation. The offspring of Terminator plants will terminate.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Like you, I can’t see how Terminator seeds would entirely swamp a farmer’s field. and don’t forget, these have to be 1st generation Terminator seeds, as bought from the Evil Corporation. The offspring of Terminator plants will terminate.
Reply - Quote
]]> By: Sam Zeitlin http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2007/10/29/terminate-this-arrant-nonsense-now/#comment-8893 Sam Zeitlin Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:40:28 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2007/10/29/terminate-this-arrant-nonsense-now/#comment-8893 I saw an article on this recently, and wondered what you thought of it. The story peddled there was that modified seeds would blow onto the lands of small farmers (the agency of the Evil Corporation in this process was left ambiguous). The hardier GM seeds would then outcompete the native seeds and take over the field. They would then die off, leaving the peasants high and dry. I don't know if this is true, but it at least seemed like a plausible process. Now that I think about it, however, this story seems like it would require an incredible amount of GM seed to be blown over the fields... Is it at all plausible, or is there no way for terminator seeds to take over a field in a single generation? -Sam<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8893','Sam Zeitlin'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8893','Sam Zeitlin','I saw an article on this recently, and wondered what you thought of it. The story peddled there was that modified seeds would blow onto the lands of small farmers (the agency of the Evil Corporation in this process was left ambiguous). The hardier GM seeds would then outcompete the native seeds and take over the field. They would then die off, leaving the peasants high and dry. I don\'t know if this is true, but it at least seemed like a plausible process. Now that I think about it, however, this story seems like it would require an incredible amount of GM seed to be blown over the fields... Is it at all plausible, or is there no way for terminator seeds to take over a field in a single generation?\r\n\r\n-Sam'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I saw an article on this recently, and wondered what you thought of it. The story peddled there was that modified seeds would blow onto the lands of small farmers (the agency of the Evil Corporation in this process was left ambiguous). The hardier GM seeds would then outcompete the native seeds and take over the field. They would then die off, leaving the peasants high and dry. I don’t know if this is true, but it at least seemed like a plausible process. Now that I think about it, however, this story seems like it would require an incredible amount of GM seed to be blown over the fields… Is it at all plausible, or is there no way for terminator seeds to take over a field in a single generation?

-Sam

Reply - Quote
]]>