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Hybrid Plants = tEh baD Mankind has selectively bred plants for thousands of years with the aim of improving their quality and production. Experimenting with cereal crops, breeders have aimed to enhance their yield of grain, the quality of their flour, and their resistance to disease and drought. With other plants, breeders have tried to improve the perfume and color of the flowers. Others have bread plants for the sole purpose of finding medicines and anti-carcinogens. …

…recorded in history. These super plants will be so resistant to disease, herbicide and general destruction that there will not be any other solution other than total eradication, probably by use of a very lethal and toxic chemical. If we do not want to face another epidemic to our crops do to wide spread disease, we must diversify our seed stocks by interbreeding between species, and also by monitoring the side effects of this breeding.