From Genetically Modified Humans To Superinsects: Slouching Toward The End Times Plagues

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From Genetically Modified Humans To Superinsects: Slouching Toward The End Times Plagues
The challenge with antibiotics, as any pharmaceutical company scientist will tell you, is that scientists can’t invent them fast enough to keep up with nature’s ability to develop resistance to them. It’s evolution, baby, and Mother Nature is showing humanity who really runs this town. So when Monsanto — the chemical giant best-known for developing genetically-modified foods in an attempt to outsmart farmers’ perennial rivals, weeds and pests — decided to go forth with its products, it surely had to have occurred to them that perhaps nature would fight back. That’s bad news for farmers, who plunked down a premium for products that could rapidly become ineffective. It’s also bad for Monsanto, which would watch its revenue stream dry up faster than an ear of sweet corn in a drought.