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Originally Posted by Elspeth
I think he's being unrealistic. While he's correct that locally produced food is a good thing, the world population is to large to not have industrialised farming and probably also GM foods.
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If there is not enough food people will starve. Will a starving person refuse GM foods? Will GM foods feed the starving?
We have a property in a small village where the cottagers have produced enough for their own needs for thousands of years, when there is frost or an unusual amount of rain they have to buy......or borrow or anything.
Starvation is not that far away when we see how the world population is growing - if science can feed this population I am all for it. I saw Biafra on the TV and I have heard about the fail of the potato crops in Ireland when people were eating grass and dying.
It is frightening.