Two questions on selective breeding of potatoes

[paintboy3]

1. You can't create a potato that is resistant to genes.
2. Potatoes are energy storage in the form of starches so more potatoes won't affect soil quality.
3. Cross breeding is and old and lame technique. The new technique is tailor made genes, like the soy bean industry does. Which sucks for farmers but is win for large soulless corporations.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0303113954.htm

Thats the original article.

and its not creating potatoes resistant to genes
its breeding potatoes that has genes to resist diseases.
Its not really creating potatoes just selecting potatoes to breed

Artifical breeding is probably the only way to keep the new offsprings as natural as possible. The faster way might be transgenic, which is to put desired gene into the organism. But this often cause ethical issues and not really natural.