RE: GMOs in Germany
February 4, 2017 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2017 at 4:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
GMOs get a bap rap because they combine three things people the world over find cause to roundly reject and demonize. Science, legal positioning, and checkered multinational corporations. None of those thing beings the crops themselves...you might notice...because there's simply nothing objectionable about them whatsoever.
We cannot and will not survive another century on the sorts of hybridization that we've employed up to the present. Corn, for example, had a static yield...for as long as we kept data, between 20 and 30 bu/acre until the 30's. Since then, we've increased the yield until it peaked a few years back, at 160some odd bu/acre (think about that for a minute....and remember that biology has limits). The last portion of that climb was directly attributable to gmos. Corn has been slipping since 2010, due to changing weather patterns and creeping climate zones.
It's not getting easier to grow, it's getting harder...and that's -with- gmo corn as leverage. We already fail to feed ourselves, and our aversion to more productive and profitable methods and crops only exacerbates this problem...which is bordering on sinister...since the same fearmongering shit people use to block gmo introductions directly deprives someone, somewhere, of life sustaining nourishment..... with most of those so derived, being children. Fully one sixth of humanity does not have enough food, 24k die -every day- as a result of malnourishment. Fun fact, our food problem is the leading cause of human death globally. Most people instinctly believe it would be war or disease or somesuch. Nope. Just hungry. "Third world problem" though..yeah? Nope again. The hungry masses are our neighbors 1/8th of americans. With all of our wealth..and the fact that we're a global breadbasket, that's only marginally above the global stats.
IMO, right now, there is no other, more pressing concern.....no more important job than food production. We need to stop shoving the smart ones off the farm...and people who cannot help but obstruct these necessary improvements should try being hungry for a day or two in their pampered little lives.
We cannot and will not survive another century on the sorts of hybridization that we've employed up to the present. Corn, for example, had a static yield...for as long as we kept data, between 20 and 30 bu/acre until the 30's. Since then, we've increased the yield until it peaked a few years back, at 160some odd bu/acre (think about that for a minute....and remember that biology has limits). The last portion of that climb was directly attributable to gmos. Corn has been slipping since 2010, due to changing weather patterns and creeping climate zones.
It's not getting easier to grow, it's getting harder...and that's -with- gmo corn as leverage. We already fail to feed ourselves, and our aversion to more productive and profitable methods and crops only exacerbates this problem...which is bordering on sinister...since the same fearmongering shit people use to block gmo introductions directly deprives someone, somewhere, of life sustaining nourishment..... with most of those so derived, being children. Fully one sixth of humanity does not have enough food, 24k die -every day- as a result of malnourishment. Fun fact, our food problem is the leading cause of human death globally. Most people instinctly believe it would be war or disease or somesuch. Nope. Just hungry. "Third world problem" though..yeah? Nope again. The hungry masses are our neighbors 1/8th of americans. With all of our wealth..and the fact that we're a global breadbasket, that's only marginally above the global stats.
IMO, right now, there is no other, more pressing concern.....no more important job than food production. We need to stop shoving the smart ones off the farm...and people who cannot help but obstruct these necessary improvements should try being hungry for a day or two in their pampered little lives.
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