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“Golden Lettuce” is genetically engineered to have higher beta-carotene levels

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Re: “Golden Lettuce” is genetically engineered to have higher beta-carotene levels

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Prepare for Greenpeace et al to shoot this down just like Golden Rice. Decades wasted, millions with damaged eyesight because of some weird Westerners with backwards ideas about what's "natural" telling people in the global south how they should live their lives (or rather, should suffer for their ideals).

Does it really matter what Greenpeace does?

Obviously it matter.

Frankly downplaying the importance of Greenpeace, a 50 years old multinational organization that helped millions of people to remain healthy and saved millions of dollars to the public, looks very dumb in 2024.

Accusing Greenpeace of something that "hasn't done yet, but it may do, or not, in the future", is also symptomatic. Let's stick to the real facts.

Re: “Golden Lettuce” is genetically engineered to have higher beta-carotene levels

#62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A large part of the problem in the us is soil depletion. We need to regenerate it by allowing roots of various weeds to pull nutrients up to the surface.

This makes me scratch my head. Can you share the science?

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/967376880/new-evidence-shows-...

Basically our use of fertilizer and weed killer killed off our microbiome in the soil. This lead to soil collapse where churning biological process add nutrients back to the soil.

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