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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fugl" data-source="post: 3322321" data-attributes="member: 816">But that's what agriculture--small-scale subsistence and large scale commercial alike--always wants to do: have the fields to itself in order to minimize competition with other organisms and maximize return on labor and capital. GM farmers just do it more efficiently than anybody else. What's needed now is a means to increase productivity per acre so as to avoid having to bring more land into cultivation (or into use for cattle ranching, that abomination).  GM. it seems to me, has great potential to help with this.  And, as I stated earlier in the thread, I am entirely in favor of labeling GM products as such. If nothing else accurate labeling should help reduce the current paranoia on the subject.I too have no objection to "misinformation" in a good cause but as I've said I don't think this is a good cause. [And good cause or bad I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work long-term in this case but would eventually boomerang back on the antis. Which, of course, would be fine by me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />].</blockquote>