this would prevent all the drug killings and traffic causing untold misery my brother is an addict and has totally ruined his life why dont we look to sceince to help us, or farmers ? grow food etc so the profit is good, or crops to run our cars???
2006-11-02 03:48:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Not sure about that!!!
2006-11-02 03:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by IloveMarmite 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't train an insect to specifically target a particular crop - locusts by their very nature are omnivorous and will literally eat ANYTHING.
Sadly, the profit levels from growing food in, for example, Afghanistan (producer of over 80% of the world's opium) will never be able to match the money to be made growing poppies.
During the reign of the Taliban, there was a widespread crackdown on poppy growing but, once the West got involved and deposed that regime, poppy production skyrocketed and is still multiplying year-on-year. Draw what conclusions from that you will.
I make no apologies for the Taliban regime - they needed to go - but this was (the only?) one of their ideas that made sense to me.
Sadly, as long as there is a demand for any illegal narcotic, and money to be made from the supply thereof, there will always be someone willing to meet this demand.
2006-11-02 11:58:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It s a great idea, but unfortunately locusts have no nerve endings ie they can live without a head! So Id imagine training them to do anything would be extremely difficult. If we removed one thing like opiates they would just discover something else to get high on anyway! I know how heart breaking it is to watch a family member or someone you love go thrrough this, I hope he manages to beat his addiction.
2006-11-02 11:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by ALEX K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see where you're coming from and it does seem a good idea. ---Just wondering though --- what would a locust do if it got 'high' from the poppy seeds?
2006-11-02 11:53:49 · answer #4 · answered by nettyone2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but not easy to do. I tried to train some slugs to eat weeds instead of flowers, but they were too stupid to understand what was expected of them
2006-11-02 11:59:47 · answer #5 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People would catch and smoke locusts then.....probably.
2006-11-02 11:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋