These technologies increase crop yields and offer a variety of crop-specific benefits, including better nutrients, improved resistance to pests, drought-resistance and other characteristics that allow farmers to grow more with less environmental impact.
Grains in particular have been intensively engineered over millennia for higher yields, pest- and disease-resistance and various desirable characteristics.
Some of the characteristics that scientists genetically implant into crops such as resistance to insect pests could make them as successful off the field as on it.
But there are three key characteristics that separate OWS from the Tea Party: First, the Occupy protesters pride themselves on provocative resistance to law enforcement and in some cases violence.