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The problem isn't what GMO's are capable of, it's forcing them on people without knowledge or consent, that is the issue.

Why we need GMOs to survive climate change

Genetically modified organisms get a bad rap for many reasons, but we’ve actually been genetically altering what we eat since the dawn of human history.

“For 10,000 years, we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops,”explains UC Davis plant pathology professor Pamela Ronald.

“Today virtually everything we eat is produced from seeds that we have genetically altered in one way or another.” (You can read more about Ronald’s thoughts on genetically engineered food here.)

Right now her focus is on rice. It’s one of our basic crops and without it, we would struggle to feed much of the world.

With climate change, we’re seeing an increase in flooding in places like India and Bangladesh, which makes it harder to grow this important food staple.

So Ronald and her lab have developed a flood-tolerant strain of rice. It’s known as Sub1a or “scuba rice” and millions of farmers in South Asia are now growing it in their fields. 

Today is National Food Day, a day dedicated to hunger awareness. But as we focus on food insecurity, we need to talk more about how global warming will make the problem worse.

As our climate continues to heat up, it has huge impacts on what foods we are able to grow. Will our crops be able to survive droughts and floods? The University of California leads six labs that are working to develop other climate-resilient crops including chickpea, cowpea and millet.

Find out what other scientists are doing to improve our food.

I’m gonna be at CTN-X in Burbank this weekend! I won’t be tabling this year, but I will be walking the floor, and I’ll have a handful of original drawings on me (including some Inktober stuff, and other odds and ends).

If you wanna buy a drawing off me, feel free to stop me on the floor. Or I’ll be live tweeting my whereabouts during the weekend if I stop at a friend’s table.

Don’t sweat it, if we can’t catch up with each other. I’ll be putting originals up for sale in my online store after I get back! Hope I bump into some of you at the show!

This started off as a joke….then I took it too far…..

just playing the new spider-man game when something caught my eye…!!!

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