Comments on: Consumers Too Dumb to Know the Difference http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2012/10/07/consumers-too-dumb-to-know-the-difference/ Uncensored Updates on World Events, Economics, the Environment and Medicine Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: stuartbramhall http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2012/10/07/consumers-too-dumb-to-know-the-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-914215 stuartbramhall Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:28:04 +0000 http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/?p=6660#comment-914215 You make some interesting points. The main problem with GMO crops is that farmers get lower yields with them, rather than the high yields Monsanto promised. Ironically we already have the agricultural technology to improve yields enough to feed 9 billion people (increasing caloric production by 200-400%). It’s called biointensive agriculture and was used extensively in China, Korea and Japan for 4,000 years – until 100 years ago. I reviewed a recent book describing this method at http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2012/07/19/farming-without-machines-a-revolutionary-agricultural-technology/ and one written in 1913 by F.H. King at http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2012/03/22/farmers-of-forty-centuries/

In my mind the problem is demographic because we already have the technology. With the skyrocketing cost of fossil fuels, we will have to return to producing food locally. And reverse the trend of the vast majority living in cities and paving over perfectly good agricultural land. This is what will take time, the enormous population shift that must occur.

]]> By: Oelsen http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2012/10/07/consumers-too-dumb-to-know-the-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-914214 Oelsen Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:13:43 +0000 http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/?p=6660#comment-914214 The same here (as in the next post): The problem isn’t GMO, but GMO for the industrial complex. To think that we can adapt our agriculture fast enough with conventional methods is exactly this delusion I commented earlier. It is fundamentally different if vegetables are changed for transport or changed to be more healthy and resistant to fungi. The same for maize, rice and wheat. If its modified for fast food, there is no value in it – if it is changed to last longer for long term storage or for very random growing seasons, we can avoid global hunger if something like this scenario occurs:
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Or in other words: Just because we can light up a house with 5kW it doesn’t mean we should do that. 50W are enough to work, read or eat. So 100 humans can do the same, not just one rich family.

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