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Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's a nice idea, but it would be better if the farmers hadn't bought that strip of field to begin with.

Farming is ridiculous like that.

Now the farmers are getting paid your tax euros because they once bought it, destroyed it and took no responsibility for it.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like paying for a strip of land that it maintained for nature. That's a great use of taxes IMHO.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 0 points 2 weeks ago

No doubt. But why does the farmer get the money? It would make more sense for the government to buy the land back for good.

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

Rotating crops and rotating strips and the free choice to plant something else or flowers. Its just an incentive, not a communistic wonderland.

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