Corporations don't know how to profit from future misery, you might say?

"Already, agricultural companies such as Monsanto are investing in developing such strains for maize and soybeans, but that leaves less profitable wheat and rice at the mercy of shrinking public sector agricultural research budgets. "Working on a trait like drought resistance is more complex than introducing a trait like insect resistance," says plant breeder Robert Reiter, vice president of biotechnology at Monsanto. "We don't have a lot of genes [to work with] that help produce more grain under water stress."


Nevertheless, Monsanto plans to begin field trials of such a hybrid corn next year, and hopes to introduce it for sale as early as 2013. "Our first gene close to commercialization—what it seems to be doing is helping the plant basically maintain more normal metabolic levels as opposed to trying to shut those processes down under stress," Reiter explains. "We may be taking [genetic] leads from corn and putting them into wheat to help it be drought tolerant and high-yielding.""

Way to go Monsanto!

Oh wait a second ... we're talking about Monsanto and their frankenproducts that the rest of the world calls genetically engineering.

For a good cause you say?

Really? You think so?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-impacts-staple-crop-yields

Basically the human race is either going to get fucked over by global warming in one of three ways -

1) Companies like Monsanto will create frankenfood that will destroy us from the inside.
2) Global Warming and all it's subsidiary effects will eventually doom us to extinction.
3) Some combination of 1) and 2).

Have a nice weekend everyone!

(h/t to The Disaffected Lib)