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Originally Posted by Korisek
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Crop Rotation was a procedure designed to keep the crops that a community was growing from removing all of the required nutrients from the soil they were being grown on. It came about to promote longevity of tilling fields. The effect on the produce itself was healthier crops, but not more.
Genetic Modification has thus far made for healthier, hardier, and/or more productive crops.
I agree that comparing the two is silly. Neither replaces the other, they are complementary with each other. Comparing crop rotation to hydroponics would be more fitting, as both involve the soil (or lack thereof) rather than the crop itself.
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So you will take healthier ( which it isn't if it isn't natural in my opinion and filled with pestisides) crops over naturally grown crops without all of the modifications? One thing we have learned from science is, its only as modern as its day and age. There are a ton of things we probably will not know scientifically for years about gmo grown crops.
I think I would rather stick to non gmo crops. I fully understand that yeah, they still get the topical pestisides, but most of that is able to be washed off on certain fruits and vegetables. You can't wash off a crop that is engineered to make its own pesticides to combat insects etc.