#themightyfoosh

Honestly, after writing a term paper on GMOs, THE BUGGERS ARE SO STRICTLY REGULATED now that most environmental side effects seem unlikely, the bigger concern is resistant weeds and pests developing because we’re really just forcing evolution.

Yeah; I mean cross-pollination is always a thing with plants because for them the whole species barrier seems less like a barrier and more like a revolving door that occasionally gets a bit stuck, but really a lot of the concerns are kind of really overblown. And sure, okay, there's always the business ethics side of it like how okay is it for a company to hold the intellectual rights for a species or what have you and as someone who side-eyes a lot of copyright legislation I totally get that, but... it's not a reason to say no this field is totally off-limits we don't want any of it, is it?

I mean looking towards the future, looking at problems like diminishing bee populations (especially non-honey bees), at the continuously increasing human population and how we may just be tossing our environment into a bin... GM crops and GMOs in general might with time turn out to be one of our best solutions for many present and future problems.

And the silliest thing about this whole scare is that it's not like us modifying our environment or the organisms in it is in any way new. We've been doing all kinds of modifications through breeding and what have you since forever: some species like dairy cattle or the banana would not exist (and with the banana, could not even propagate) without our constant and continuous intervention. It's just another way of doing this same thing again, and one that is less random, potentially even safer, and could allow even better results.

i have similar feelings about gm crops, like it’s just a regular old plant with a couple new proteins not like some vile murder plant.

Yeah. I mean sure, okay, there's definitely potential dangers of rogue, hard to control plantlife ravaging ecosystems if we're not careful, especially when cross-pollination comes into play as it tends to with plants. Or plants that accidentally produce unwanted and even toxic substances under certain unexpected conditions and what have you. However, these risks also exist in non-gm plantlife, and where the gm plants are extensively tested for safety by law, the non-gm ones are not.

BUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO JOSIE THOUGH? Like would you just find her in one of those cells, going on about how if she’d contacted the right people they’d have known better. Known that Redcliffe was too dangerous? How she could have done better.

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOOOOOPE. LI or not I think that would DESTROY Leliana, since she says the Warden is the only person she trusts completely.

hahaha the warden falling under coryphinus’s control right in front of their non-warden LI -lays down-

In hushed whispers? More like In Muffled Sobs.

In Quiet Sadness and Silent Despair. Though I suppose it's pretty efficient for them to put such an amazing source for sad headcanons together in one place.

COLE BELIEVING THE WORD IS BEYOND HELPING IS ACTUALLY THE SADDEST.

BUT LIKE IMAGINE COLE THOUGH, turned into a caged demon because all he wanted to do was help and he couldn’t and this corrupted world managed to break him AND I JUST NO