[outcast]

So you're saying it has failed because you think it has and not because people who have actually used it say it has? Wow, nice reasoning skills.

[frankthetank]

This country is so fat and unhealthy because of GM crops. You take a hair sample from some fat little kid and you'll see half his diet consists of corn (meat/soft drinks/etc etc) and the other half is potatoes. They are so easy to grow in huge amounts, that we have to turn some of it to fuel.

[outcast]

It was that way long before GM food became widespread in the market.

[manu]

So you're saying it has failed because you think it has and not because people who have actually used it say it has? Wow, nice reasoning skills.

GMO's are neither a solution nor the problem. They are merely symptomatic of an industrial food system that is completely dependent on failing aquifers, depleted top soil, declining petroleum, and massively clogged ecologic toilets.

Well said!

[Roy]

GMO's are neither a solution nor the problem. They are merely symptomatic of an industrial food system that is completely dependent on failing aquifers, depleted top soil, declining petroleum, and massively clogged ecologic toilets.

Thats enough to challenge the most severe case of cornucopian optimism.

Well done sir.

[Pretorian]

GMO's are neither a solution nor the problem. They are merely symptomatic of an industrial food system that is completely dependent on failing aquifers, depleted top soil, declining petroleum, and massively clogged ecologic toilets.

Thats enough to challenge the most severe case of cornucopian optimism.

Well done sir.

+1.52

[outcast]

Yet while you guys bash GM crops, it might be what saves the world

AMID the global food crisis, there is finally some good news. Scientists meeting in Ciudad Obregón, Mexico, this week say they have developed new varieties of wheat resistant to the Ug99 strain of stem rust fungus that is threatening the world's food supplies. The race is now on to get the wheat into the world's breadbaskets before Ug99 spreads further.

[outcast]

Real solution: Population reduction and an agrarian infrastructure where people, nutrients, chemical, and information are near the soil for a close-loop sustainable agriculture/human culture.

So just to be clear you want to turn the clock back hundreds of years?

[manu]

Nature is going to turn back the clock. Big buisness will all be finished in a very short time. Here is the solution. High thinking and simple living. Pull yourself away from the distractions long enough to ask, why am I here, who am I, and what does it all mean?
Those people who can't get out of the mode of ignorance can't see that we are killing off so many life forms, polluting the air we breath, the water we drink, and the ground we grow our food on. That is what industrialization has brought. Did it solve the problems of birth, death, old age and disease. No, but now they can kill a city of millions of people in just a few minutes with a nuclear bomb. So they are more efficient at killing. You will see just how efficient within the next year. Again, get out of the cities while you still can.

[outcast]

Then why not go to Africa and live out your dream? Why not go over there and live out what you want to bring upon the rest of us? Enjoy their healthcare system.

[outcast]

I never said any of that in responce to those points. This tells me you never even bothered reading anyones replies about that stuff in the past.

[Graeme]

Britain must launch GM food revolution, says chief scientist

Britain must embrace genetically modified crops and cutting-edge developments such as nanotechnology to avoid catastrophic food shortages and future climate change, the government's chief scientist will warn today.

In the clearest public signal yet that the government wants a hi-tech farming revolution, Professor John Beddington will say UK scientists need to urgently d evelop "a new and greener revolution" to increase food production in a world changed by global warming and expected to have an extra 3 billion people to feed by 2040.

"Techniques and technologies from many disciplines, ranging from biotechnology and engineering to newer fields such as nanotechnology, will be needed," writes Beddington in a paper, seen by the Guardian, to accompany his speech to the Oxford farming conference.

He warns that time lags for the use of new technology on farms means action is vital now and argues that it is no longer possible to rely on improving yields from crops in traditional ways. "Over the last 50 years improving yields has accounted for 75% of increase in output. However, yield growth rates are now slowing," he says.

guardian

[coyote]

Super. Here we go...

[Ludi]

GM = waste of time and money

Proven a failure.

http://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3982

[mos6507]

Here is the proper headline:

Britain must end immigration and launch birth prevention revolution, says chief scientist.