Aaron Rainbolt

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  Aaron commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Crop Extinctions

   We desperately need to maintain a vast variety of genetic diversity in our crops. With Climate change looming over the world, it threatens countless varieties of plant foods. New stressors will be introduced into areas that have remained relatively static for a long time. Diversity is an absolute necessity for the sustainability of the world food chain. We need to protect it at all costs. I definitely agree with this article. But furthermore, we need to protect the natural occurring gene combinations that exist in many crops in another way. With the rise of biotechnology and patentable genes, genetically modified pollen can possible infiltrate a rare species of crops and strangle out their needed variations, all the while, making the cross pollinated crops potentially some foreign corporation's property. This could destroy the continued cultivation of those crops (not to mention what makes them so unique) and eventually lead to their extinction.

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  Aaron signed the petition | about 3 years ago

  Eliminate Violence Against Women