Ficus talks about Transgenic (Part 2)

It was Dashahra and Timeline happened to be in the village. Having had a tough time moving here and there around the world, Ficus had forced the Timeline to stay for a couple of months and asked to carry on his business staying there. It was during this time that the trouble of the transgenic crops had come up; and so Ficus engaged Timeline in this discussion.
It was early morning and the birds had come out. the warblers were chattering and the crows had started to crow. The farmers had let open the doors of their chicken coops and the graceful cocks started courting the big fat hens. The milkmen were readying the cows to milk them. The priest was hurrying to the temple with flowers in one hand and a bunch of keys of the temple in other. The palace which sleeps for most of the year was also alive as it was Dashahra. Slowly the whole village was coming to life.
Ficus was telling Timeline about the antiquity of the Dashahra festival and how he had witnessed dashara procession of the royals since the past 100 or so years. As they were talking, Shanker and Shyamu were going to their fields and they were discussing about the Bt Rice they had grown this season. This reminded Ficus of the opposition and pressure from various organisations, which these two progressive farmers were facing. And then he asked Timeline for his view on Transgenic crops. Timeline in his typical husky voice started telling Ficus about such problems which time and again have cropped up and homo sapiens have overcome since the past 200 thousand or so years.