08-17-2008, 01:07 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: a city on the Great Silk Road, Kazakhstan
Posts: 2,253
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Menarue
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.
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I fully share your opinion. Upon reading polemic in regard to Prince Charles' comments, I think that the human beings face the following dilemma: (1) find ways to decrease the population through strict birth control or (2) find ways to feed increasing population.
By the way, I do not believe in organic farming at the industrial scale.
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