You were writing the other day about world hunger Russ, and the fact that a billion people in the world now go to bed hungry, Monsanto and others would argue that if we are going to feed 2.3 billion people by the year 2050 then the development of GM crops resistant to disease, drought, salinity, heat and toxic heavy metals is vital to human survival as we know it.
Personally the problem I have with GM is the patenting of seed, the ways we are effectively banned from keeping our own seed in order to finance the chemical companies. Governments and non profit organisations used to conduct far more agricultural research, now it is largely left to the chemical companies who, surprise, surprise, want a return on their investment.
Europe's blanket ban on GM imports is already weakening and as supplies get harder to source I think we will see more loosening of the situation in order to keep the supermarket shelves stocked, basic political expediency.
But as someone wiser than I am said, we must face the fact that we can not have infinite growth in our finite world.
If the Earth cannot support 2.3 billion people, then it won't.
Topic: The World According To Monsanto (Read 11609 times)
