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Where do you live? I live in the heart of Minnesota. It is a "Mecca" for food and crop production. Many of my friends that I have tea with every morning are farmers. I'm going to show them this thread so they can all have a good laugh. If you think we can feed the world with organically grown crops, you are spewing propaganda. Of course, I'm sure almost all here have hardly seen a farm, let alone work on one, bale hay of participate in butchering a hog or steer.We have 2 local vegetable farms near here. The labor force required to run a farm like this would not be possible without migrant farm workers, there is simply too much work to get it all done. Not eating meat is one's own personal choice, but the best beef cattle are raised on grass. Lots of this grass land (or pasture land) is prefect for this process. The cattle consume the grass (not in real conflict with other foods in the food chain) and we eat the cattle.BTW, almost every food item you guys eat today is the result of hybrid manipulation. Cattle are. Tomatoes never used to have thick skin as they do now, and in the old days, had a high mortality rate getting to the market. This is in fact, gene manipulation.
Saying you're ignorant of the differences between breeding and genetic modification is not calling you names.
Werd,Again what I said is MAYBE GMO's can help the third world if they can say produce a rice that contains all essential vitamins or crops that can better withstand the harsh conditions of say sub Saharan Africa.Whether they are COMPLETELY safe? who knows? I'm not a geneticist. But is any tech completely safe? Hell driving your car to work maybe the one of the most dangerous things you do daily.I'm not arguing for them.....or against.And once again, all sides have valid points to make. Yes you too are correct. A lot of places in the third world certainly have no shortage of labor. Hell that's why we North Americans as you say, build factories in them. To take advantage of that. So maybe a lot of them could also work on farms. But something is clearly wrong, as there a lot of hungry people in the world.True, much of it is due to local politics. Dictators who control everything for there own benefit, or incite civil wars etc. But that opens up another divisivediscussion.Can will all just chill out a bit??
We all know the differences between hybrid and genetic fiddling. How's that mushroom farm doing now?
I truly apologize to all if I some how turned this into a political debate. That was not my intentI like good intellectual discourse. But this seems to have taken a bit of an ugly turn.I will refrain from posting here again.cheers to all.
The organic industry is breaking growth records in 2016https://www.minds.com/blog/view/600448233210126353Here in Missouri, farmer markets are springing up everywhere, even in the smallest towns. Price? Store-cucumbers and zucchii-99 cents eachFarmers markets-2/$1 and 3/$1Sorry Monsanto: Organic Food Smashed Records Last Year With Over $35 Billion In Saleshttp://www.healthynaturalcures.org/sorry-monsanto-organic-food-smashed-records-last-year-35-billion-sales/
Mama Monsanto loves their GMO racket. The whole world is run on fees and services charges on basically doing nothing. Like bank fees or cancellation fees. Monsanto business model is the same thing. They are using GMOs to create a system where they can charge for basically nothing after selling the seed and Herbicide.They want you sign a contract (fees) then they want in on the harvest ( more fees). All because they have sold this illusion that their tech is worth it. Sounds like that DRM thing (MQA) Meridian is trying to push. Or you can do the Generic stuff and ignore Monsanto.
