Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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end/ It's no mistake that such holistically-stewarded varieties possess the inherent capacity to adapt to climate chaos, nor that the bio-economic structure of the conventional plant-breeding complex (its genomic progeny included) represent an evolutionary dead-end. Whoops.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Jan 2022

@GMWatch Bizarre, the almost universal failure to notice, but hybrid varieties of food crops (the majority of for-profit cultivars) are engineered _by_design_ to lack the inherent capacity to co-evolve. Simply put, at a fundamental genomic level, such seed cannot adapt to climate chaos.

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Quoted by@charlesdowding Also worth noting that the modem plant breeding complex and its genomic progeny, epitomize a profoundly incoherent evolutionary paradigm, *by design*. Yes, OP standards are flailing, but let's not dismiss them. Indeed, if eating has a future, they likely represent our salvation.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @nils_gilman Don't get me started. 'The Story', of late, largely dictated by economic interests, where recent insights into the fundamental, organismic (i.e. archetypal) structure of life, reveal vigor as dependent upon much more than the evolutionary cul-de-sac of synthetic hybridization.Quoted by@nils_gilman Don't get me started. 'The Story', of late, largely dictated by economic interests, where recent insights into the fundamental, organismic (i.e. archetypal) structure of life, reveal vigor as dependent upon much more than the evolutionary cul-de-sac of synthetic hybridization.