How to trigger anti-vaxxers and genetic engineering haters at once? 😂 #COVID19
"Medicago doesn’t work with a live virus. Instead, it uses plants, a relatively new approach that has seen much advancement in the past decade. It inserts a genetic sequence into agrobacterium, a soil bacteria, which is taken up by plants — in this case, a close cousin to tobacco. The plant begins to produce the protein that can then be used as a vaccine."
@kravietz
There is a proper use for GE and vaccines (maybe this is an example), but when it's all about IP or monopolising the food supply, or profiting at another's expense ... well, then we have a problem
Majority of mission-critical GE crops today - like Bt binjal or golden rice or submersible rice - are in public domain and Monsanto patents expired back in 2000s.
Greenpeace is opposing to GE no matter what, quoting some esoteric nonsense about "natural purity", like majority of edible plants today were not already genetically engineered or transgenic.
