(June 2, 2013 at 10:11 am)Rhythm Wrote: Ag has a negative impact on the environment, period. I can't think of any other singular endeavor that has had a greater impact on the environment, in fact. It's pretty serious business. So why not take it seriously, and make the best use of those resources - get the most out of our wholesale (and unfortunately necessary) destruction of the landscape?
Only because other productionmessures also had a negative impact on the enviorment this does not mean that we should allow new production messures to piss on the enviorment aswell.
Need I remind you that envirormental protection is a child of the 1970s and 1980s which has only recently established itself in politics during the late 1990s and is still rejected by people who run your country.
Quote:GMO crops are the -only- crops that anyone has taken any steps to contain.......and "super-pests", for example, are bred on any farm where broad spectrum pesticide regimens are used (this includes conventionals and organics). If you want to contain the damage, and protect balance(however the hell you're going to measure it), GMO is the tool for that.
Of course it is the only crop we have attempted to contain - because it is the only crop which should be contained.
Other than the fact that the crop displaces other crops I think it is worth mentoning that the used pesticides are constantly "improved" by adding more toxins to prevent the adaption of plants to that toxin - which in the end requires more pesticides to be sprayed - which in the end causes more damage to the enviorment.
A farm - is not a closed bubble which doesnt interact with the surrounding enviorment. Pesticides will drain into groundwater and will be spread further into the ecological system aswell.
