[Except it has been that way since the 1920s and the advent of hybrid seed. It really doesn't matter, as the farmers switched to this due to better profits.]

Yeah, the only problem with GMO is when corporations build features into seeds that have nothing to do with making crops more robust or harvests more productive (i.e. seeds that produce sterile crops, forcing farmers to buy more seeds all the time, or seeds that will only accept certain fertilizers/pesticides that…

As an Agricultural Economist (well, ok, I'm finishing up my Undergrad in Agri Econ), I agree that 90% of the resistance to GMO's is somewhere between uniformed to reactionary batshit crazy. That said, I am still "against GMO's".

Not because GMO's are inherently wrong, or "unnatural" (but please, don't compare gene…

Excellent explanation. Thank you. I figured it deserved a "well done" instead of just a Recommend.

Bro, do you even science?

As I understand it, the rainbow papaya was an F1 hybrid 'engineered' by the sort of traditional plant breeding techniques that have been with us for many decades. If that is so, then describing it as a GMO is, at best, underhand. I am sure that big-agribusiness is delighted to muddy the waters in this way at every…

This very much reminds me of the time I came home to find my cat trying to drag the defrosting Thanksgiving turkey up the stairs. 8 pound cat, 25 pound turkey.

meanwhile your downtowns and your bottom 98% rot before your very eyes, and instead of helping them, they're told to try harder and be more competitive.

Children have no problem with empathy - there's actually been a lot of science demonstrating this. We lose it over time, though. It's why kids who get along great on a playground somehow can't in adulthood.

There's hard work and then there's just doing hard work for no point. I graduated second in my class without really trying because it was a small rural school where half the girls were pregnant at graduation or shortly thereafter and no one cared. In college I briefly joined a "honors college" program with harder…

Before you summarily dismiss my argument, learn about the Mexican economy beyond a few cursory stereotypes. The country is dominated by some highly concentrated mega-corporations that stifle competition and, with less competition, keep consumer prices higher and ensure that fewer good paying jobs exist at all. …

You sound just like every kid I have ever taught that asks questions that are answered directly in the directions. Did you read them? Nah.

Hahaha, I like that one. GPA is the most thrown around inflated stat right now. Whenever a student/parents starts with GPA thrown in there, I know exactly what kind of student he/she is.

—test scores have never been higher, despite what you may have heard—

I imagine it's becoming more competitive just as the middle class is evaporating in the U.S. Everyone wants to believe that "hard work" will give them a privileged spot in the 1%, but life isn't like the movies. The system is set up to give people vain hope so that they'll support policies that enrich the few at the…

If you didn't finish the article, how can you be sure your points aren't addressed? Why even comment at all if you didn't get through the whole thing?

Drew twice mentioned US News. And therein lies one of the problems. My oldest starts college in a few weeks. She may have looked on her own, but US News "rankings" were not part of any discussion I was inolved in. But it was definitely part of some of her friends'. US News rankings are bullshit not tied to anything…

Is this a thing again? Please tell me that this is not a thing again.

Gaussian burn!

I knew Glenn Burke when he played with the Dodgers. I was a sports reporter/ photographer for a S.F. gay newspaper. During the off season,Glenn was to play in a Charity Basketball game between gay athletes and S.F. Firemen. At a practice I came around to photograph the gay players. Glenn asked me not to photographed…