heirlooms will grow the same plant variety and produce seeds and continue to grow generation after generation. If they get pollinated from a nearby gmo crop it can effect the next generation of seeds though, and ruin heirloom crops. Gmo can destroy all food on earth.
Vonnegut story, Cat's Cradle. In it a compound Ice IX is discovered, basically water that freezes at room temp. If it comes into contact with normal water that water becomes Ice IX. Hilarity ensues, it spreads, Earth dies.
heirlooms will grow the same plant variety and produce seeds and continue to grow generation after generation. If they get pollinated from a nearby gmo crop it can effect the next generation of seeds though, and ruin heirloom crops. Gmo can destroy all food on earth.
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Vonnegut story, Cat's Cradle. In it a compound Ice IX is discovered, basically water that freezes at room temp. If it comes into contact with normal water that water becomes Ice IX. Hilarity ensues, it spreads, Earth dies.