Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
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Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#2we produce enough food to feed everyone on earth.GMO can be useful, but 90% of the time it is used to sell herbicide resistant crops, GMO and herbicide sold by the same company like Bayer.
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#3It's not about health issues. I don't care if some poor guy with fish allergy dies after eating GMO potato. It's about licencing issues! GMO has potential to literally enslave humanity. GMO should either be public domain or banned. There is no middle ground!
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#4Rejection of GMOs and rejection of large corporations controlling food sources, are different issues that are completely tied up in each other. Most of the problems with GMOs are problems with the patenting of crops, suing farmers for ridiculous reasons. The rest of the problems are people screaming "but the chemicals!" with no real scientific basis.
We definitely need more GMO crops to feed the planet. We most likely need less of Monsanto et al meddling in the farming industry.
I also find there's an opposite view of organic crops – there's this glorified notion that "organic" crops are better, but they're only better along very specific axes, namely the lack of pesticides, of which some may be dangerous (but often regulated). In reality, organic crops use more land, more water, and produce less for sale, in many ways making them worse for the environment than (responsible) pesticide usage.
Everyone just needs to take into account their externalities. Right now industry and (some) eco campaigners don't.
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#5We have more than enough food for everyone. Actually, we waste most of agricultural land to grow crops to feed animals that we eat later on, which is extremely inefficient, like a 10 to 1 calorie conversion rate. It's also cruel, bad for the environment, etc.
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#6GMOs are under patent and increase prices, they do not keep the poor hungry, they are simply resistant to more pesticides.
And pesticides like Roundup have been linked to neurological problems like Parkinson.
If you’d want to save the poor, you’d teach them about greenhouses and irrigation and soil enrichment, which are actually the biggest issues in these poor countries
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#7We have more than enough food for everyone. Actually, we waste most of agricultural land to grow crops to feed animals that we eat later on, which is extremely inefficient, like a 10 to 1 calorie conversion rate. It's also cruel, bad for the environment, etc.
No one agrees with this because we all like eating meat.
But yes, distribution is the real problem
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#8> The rejection of modern agricultural methods, genetic engineering, and the utilization of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides is exclusively the prerogative of wealthy humans living in developed, largely Western nations
Here we are. The article criticizes environmentalists against pesticides but never addresses environmental concerns. Convince me that "GMOs making pesticides resistant bad because most pesticides bad, because it harms the environment of which people are part" is false first.
What keeps the poor hungry is keeping the poor poor. The solution to this political choice is not a technical answer.
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#9We have more than enough food for everyone. Actually, we waste most of agricultural land to grow crops to feed animals that we eat later on, which is extremely inefficient, like a 10 to 1 calorie conversion rate. It's also cruel, bad for the environment, etc.
But humans cannot eat grass, there are animals that only eat grass (sheep, geese, cows, goats) that are perfectly edible for humans.
Re: Rejecting GMOs hinders human progress and keeps the poor hungry
#10This is whats wrong with articles. You can never know the motive behind them. There’s no way this article is actually written organically and the big corps aren’t paying them to write this. There should be some regulation stopping this. Basically any company with money can now spread their own propoganda.