Reddit mentions of 10 oz Prickly Pear Marmalade

> A lack of biodiversity can lead to disaster since diseases can spread rapidly through a widespread monoculture like in the case of the Irish Potato Famine.

I hear people talk about that all the time, but it has bugger all to do with genetic engineering. That is the domain of conventional selection. It certaintly is important, and I'd take it a step further and say we need more species level biodiversity (things like teff or quinoa or manoomin or ōhelo or prickly pear or the many other less commonly cultivated crop species). Unfortunately, I rarely see anyone work to actually do something about that, to actually promote biodiversity among the general public; it's mostly just attacking biotechnology and using biodiversity as an rather poor justification. If the anti-GMO groups spent half as much time and effort promoting biodiversity (which is the big issue here...can't really expect a thing to be grown if the end consumer neither knows nor cares what the thing is can you?) as they do lying about and scaremongering over a something that has been proven time and again to be benefitial the world would be a better place.