08-05-2016, 10:39 AM
"no one knows what will happen when the mosquitos are released into the wild."
They know exactly what will happen, because they have released these GMO mosquitoes several times. In each instance the mosquito population plummets by over 90%. The only reason why the population didn't decline 100% is because Oxitec would have made a single-use product and that's bad business.
Humans already genetically-modified the environment by introducing a species that never existed there before. If it takes a GMO mosquito to restore the balance, then make it happen.
They know exactly what will happen, because they have released these GMO mosquitoes several times. In each instance the mosquito population plummets by over 90%. The only reason why the population didn't decline 100% is because Oxitec would have made a single-use product and that's bad business.
Humans already genetically-modified the environment by introducing a species that never existed there before. If it takes a GMO mosquito to restore the balance, then make it happen.