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These are pretty sweet.

Been doing lots of research on Native American gardening practices, especially in regards to arid climates. I've been decently successful with more traditional gardening, raised beds and all, but I always found myself fighting these gnarly Central Valley summers. Just gonna try and collect some reference materials on this tumblr and then hopefully restart my summerisle garden blog. I still have a hell of a lot of reading and planning to do still though. I'm sick of looking at my fallow garden.

as a biochem major i get so salty when people give me shit for supporting GMOs like we’re not creatiNG CANCER CAUSING ALIEN CROPS it’s literally hey let’s splice this gene from this plant into another plant to give it properties of first plant

You know what else is GMO? Dogs. Every domesticated animal, as well as crops, is GMO. Since selective breeding is GMO.

Well fuck, I had typed out a full on response to this and accidentally deleted it so I gotta get all concise on this shit. First of all, I love science, it's awesome and it's extremely important to continue exploring our world in a scientific manner. BUT, I have a major problem with GMOs and it's not over the "can you eat it" thing. As far as I know, (and I'd love for someone to tell me otherwise) the end game to GMOs is higher yield thanks to being able to withstand heavy pesticide and herbicide application. I'm aware this isn't the case for everything, but even if it isn't, higher yield at the price of a loss of biodiversity is not okay with me. You can certainly call domestication of plants, animals (and yeasts!) a type of genetic modification, but it is quite a bit removed from lab style genetic splicing. Also, if GMOs allow companies to patent certain breeds of plants, which in turn allows them to sue small farms out of business for unlicensed use of a certain plant merely due to an accidental cross pollination, then it very much is a terrible thing to support. Anyways, this got a little ranty and I'd really like to find and link to sources to back up some of what I said, but I'm going to be lazy instead. That's just my personal bit on GMOs. I very much agree that it is stupid to just parrot popscience mania over gluten, superfoods, vegan cat food (wtf people) etc... Go science for studying the human consumption GMOs, but please consider all the other effects on both human and non human existence on this planet.