98 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 15 Apr \ on: Strawberry production in both Europe, America skyrocketed. For opposite reasons. charts_and_numbers
Kind of related but the university I went to has a big agricultural focus. My viticulture prof said most of the university's profits come from a patent on splicing a fish gene into strawberries to prevent them from freezing.
Along those lines, I happen to know one of the foremost experts on the economics of strawberries. (I'm actually just assuming that's his professional status, because how many people can there be studying that?)
A lot of America's advantage over Europe in agriculture comes down to allowing far more synthetic processes, from chemical treatments to genetic manipulation. For strawberries specifically, there's something about how we allow a particularly toxic fumigant to be used that's illegal pretty much everywhere else and is illegal in America for almost any other purpose.
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A lot of America's advantage over Europe in agriculture comes down to allowing far more synthetic processes, from chemical treatments to genetic manipulation.
I'm both proud and afraid (that we're going the way of one of Margaret Atwood's bio-fiction novels.
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