Hi MPCevat,

See the Members News how the added option works which WAS a result of the auto-opt in policy that WCG ALWAYS ran with prior to this change. The "Please opt me in ..." button did not exist until about 14 days ago, so you could not have chosen it.

RICE as said is not a GM directed research, rather a research into finding the best parts in existing grain types and use those having them to cross-breed more Nutritious RICE types with higher yields. See the project research page and posts by the scientist michalguerquin and the PI, random, for explanations: This is the search result for your commodation: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=20230

Hope this is sufficient information for you to add to your view.

ciao

Even bacteria mutate (the DNA of the bacteria changes). How do you think we get drug resistant strains ?
Eliminate all of the susceptible ones and only the resistant ones are left to propagate.

Cheers

We will be gentle regarding your English, as we are with everybody, French or not.

Regarding what you say it is a different matter. This project is not meant to produce one best species which suits all situations and environments but to help rice farmers to cross breed rice species which are already available to them for improving their quality. Species from a very wet region will probably not give good results in a dryer one, whatever we compute.

"Some company" will not be able either to produce that "best species for everywhere", and even if it could, it would not make much money with it if any rice farmer can make it for free.

That being said the project you want to contribute is entirely your own choice, no problem.
Cheers. Jean.

PS: I don't want to be a slave either, and particularly not the slave of green activists whose objectives are not always innocent.

The thing that strikes me as strange about this posting is that the poster has a Nutricious Rice badge. By definition, as I understand it, this means that the poster has performed some 42 nutricious rice tasks at eight hours a time. How come he now complains that he never wanted to do this work? Or else the badge issuing routines don't work!