re: Many food and agricultural varieties going "extinct"?

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, I can't help but be very uneasy in being so joined at the hip to outside sources that we put all our eggs in one basket and are a serious drought or disease away from being taken out..

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This statement is just a talking point for the anti-big AG crowd. There are universities world-wide who are dedicated to developing new varieties and researching agriculture practices to make sure we have a sustainable industry.

The funny thing is that the same anti-big ag people say what about a drought, but scoff at a GMO developed that could withstand a drought

Like it has been mentioned before there are huge genetic banks storing old varieties of plants and animal genetics. My buddy in grad school did his masters on using bull semen frozen from the 50's which was able to produce calves 60 years later.

The lack of variety in genetics is a myth.