bham wrote:Well, not precisely since the manufacture of GMOs does not require petroleum and Monsanto understood that it was going, with its GMOs, to do what we do with petroleum today: to generate dependence.
In addition to what Christophe said, I would add that trying to grow a field of GMOs without chemical inputs from petroleum would be wasted time.
These "plants" are very demanding in terms of the environment and we must constantly "correct" it to adapt it to the plant ... it was too simple and not sales enough to let the plant adapt to its environment