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Science. Innovation. Agriculture. Innovator at Bayer Crop Science.
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05.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 137 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
The appeal to nature fallacy isn’t cute or harmless.
It’s the reason people fear medicine, vaccines, GMOs, and chemistry itself.
It’s not “back to nature.”
It’s back to ignorance.
It is unbelievable that in 2025, defending science has become an act of bravery.
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04.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 527 🔁 98 💬 12 📌 3
Here is the link to the study: Impact of genetically modified Brinjal (Bt brinjal) on farmers’ income and production in Pabna District, Bangladesh. 12/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
03.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This isn’t a promise.
It’s already happening.
Bt brinjal is one of the most successful real-world GMO case studies.
More countries should learn from Bangladesh.
🔁 Share this if you believe in science-based farming. 11/
What if Europe allowed this too?
Instead of banning gene editing…
We could grow more with less and protect farmers.
And reduce our pesticide footprint.
But ideology still blocks innovation. 10/
THE BOTTOM LINE:
Bt brinjal in Bangladesh delivers:
✅ More yield.
✅ Less pesticide.
✅ More income.
✅ Fewer sprays.
✅ No trade-offs.
All thanks to a small genetic tweak. 9/
NO YIELD TRADE-OFF:
Critics often say GMOs trade off nutrition or quality.
But here, the market price of Bt brinjal was similar or slightly better.
No penalty. No rejection. Just better results. 8/
INCOME: +69% HIGHER PROFIT
Bt brinjal farmers earned 90,708 BDT/ha.
Non-Bt farmers earned 53,217 BDT/ha.
That’s a $340 per hectare difference in local currency.
Big deal for smallholders. 7/
PESTICIDE: -40% LESS
Bt brinjal required far fewer insecticide sprays.
Why?
The plant already protects itself.
This means:
🟢 Lower costs.
🟢 Lower exposure. 6/
YIELD: +43% MORE
Bt brinjal farmers harvested 19.67 tons/ha.
Non-Bt farmers got 13.75 tons/ha.
That’s a massive jump from just one trait change. 5/
Study Design:
✔️ 300 farmers
✔️ 150 growing Bt brinjal
✔️ 150 growing non-Bt brinjal
✔️ Surveyed on yield, input costs, pesticide use, and profits. 4/
Enter: Bt brinjal This is a genetically modified eggplant.
It produces a natural protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that kills FSB. 3/
Location: Pabna District, Bangladesh.
Brinjal (eggplant) is a major crop here.
But pests like the fruit and shoot borer (FSB) cause major losses. 2/
What happens when farmers plant GMOs?
A new study from Bangladesh shows the answer:
⬆️More yield.
⬇️Less pesticide.
⬆️Higher income.
Let’s unpack the data 🧵1/
Bottom line:
We need to power the future.
We need to feed the future.
That means embracing the tools that work.
☢️ Nuclear
🌽 GMOs
Science is not the enemy.
It’s our only way forward. 9/
The only thing standing in the way?
🚫 Outdated ideologies
🚫 Anti-science movements
🚫 Fear-based politics
The planet can’t afford that anymore. 8/
We don’t need magical new solutions.
We already have:
✅ Clean, scalable power
✅ Precise, sustainable farming tools
They’re called nuclear and GMOs.
And they’re ready right now. 7/
What are the real risks?
⚠️ Burning more coal and gas because we shut down nuclear.
⚠️ Plowing more forests and using more pesticides because we banned biotech.
We’re not avoiding danger.
We’re creating it — by rejecting innovation. 6/
Let’s get this straight:
☢️ Nuclear is not dangerous.
It has the lowest death rate per kWh of any energy source — including wind and solar.
🌽 GMOs are not risky.
After 30 years, thousands of studies, and billions of meals:
No proven health harms.
Only benefits. 5/
Both nuclear and GMOs have been victims of the same script:
🔻 Decades of fear-mongering
🔻 Cherry-picked horror stories
🔻 “Natural is better” fallacies
🔻 Political paralysis
🔻 Activist lawsuits
The result?
We blocked the very technologies that could save lives. 4/
Food demand is also rising fast.
We need to grow more food using less land, less water, and fewer resources.
GMOs help us do that.
But instead of celebrating them, we ban them —
While hunger, emissions, and prices rise. 3/
Energy use is surging.
AI, data centers, electric cars, industrial growth.
We’re going to need 2x more electricity by 2050.
Yet we’re shutting down nuclear —
The cleanest, safest, and most reliable energy source ever invented.
Why? 2/
Energy demand keeps rising.
Food demand keeps rising.
But our policies are stuck in 1970.
It’s time to remove the ideological blinders.
Because the world needs more power and more food —
Not more fear.
Let’s talk about nuclear and GMOs. 🧵1/
I’ve played nice. I’ve held my tongue. But no more. The lie that vaccines are dangerous is killing people.
We have lives to protect.
Vaccines are safe, effective, and essential. Enough of the fear-mongering.
I’m in the other place.
What’s this place like.
Is it worth me paying here?
20.09.2025 19:26 — 👍 61 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
PestiRiv : une photographie rassurante de l’exposition des riverains aux pesticides
Les Français habitant près des vignes sont plus exposés à certains pesticides, mais les niveaux d’exposition restent faibles. 9/
www.lepoint.fr/societe/pest...
So what’s the headline?
Living near vineyards = more exposure, yes.
But at low, regulated, safe levels.
No health risks detected.
€11 million later, the result is simple:
The science is reassuring. 8/
