The Financial Times is doing what it usually does - providing concise and honest insight into how the elite bosses think, this time around genetically modified crops. The recent op-ed by John Gapper follows a logic that I've been bumping into increasingly.
- We need to increase food production to feed the world.
- Yield-increasing science has worked before.
- The nay-sayers want to reduce output through organic agriculture.
- Monsanto, on the other hand, is investing in science.
- Therefore we ought to embrace GM technology to fight the food crisis.
Almost everything about this argument is wrong. ... read more »
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Posted on 13 June, 2008 - 17:36
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