We Are All Going To Starve

[Minimalist]

Most food seems to be modified. I just learned that bananas as we know them have been cultivated to be an infertile shadow of their natural ancestor and can only propagate via cloning/ planting suckers. REAL bananas have seeds!

Cabbages really only have a few leaves like any other plant. Carrots are so damn thin it's be like eating string... the list goes on.

Still, The worlds population by 2050 will be at it's maximum supportable unless we do something far more radical than embrace GM. Water consumption will be maxxed out too. ..but this isn't necessarily bad. It just means there can't be exponential population growth. There is a limit.

I hate having to agree with you, Frodo (let's not make a habit of this) but somehow, neo-lithic Central Americans figured out how to bio-engineer this



Teosinte grass, into this:



Maize.

The date has been recently pushed back to roughly 6,000 BC.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...212037.htm


No one has a clue how they did it.