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Ok, I'll give you sheep if you give me wheat!

Please deliver, OP

It's not that simple. GM golden rice was introduced into bali quite some time ago. It has better nutritional value and more calories per work-hour, etc., and was resistant to insects.

The insect resistance had a domino effect, tho: less insects meant fewer frogs and so on, until the water quality and security of Bali was seriously compromised.

So yes, GMs can be helpful but if we're not careful they can have drastic unintended consequences. and they can be dangerous for reasons that can be difficult to predict.

mind you, this is more to do with the drastic differences of the product rather than how the product was developed.

Zach how'd you discover Don Meij? Your impersonation is so fucking goom

Upon looking at it once more, the way this happened was that balinese were told to grow all year around with these new variants of rice. between this and the pesticides and so on, the water was significantly altered and so on. So I was a little off with my description.

The case was found by Steve Lansing, an anthropologist, in the 1970s. This video, particularly from 4:06, explains it pretty well. He wrote a book about it which is handily summarised here and subsequently, [here].(http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/research/Lansing%201996.htm).

The Green Revolution has a wikipedia page, explaining in detail how rice (and other crops) were genetically modified.