http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/358/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/347 <p><img src="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/files/miranowski.gif" width="400" "alt="energy use on US farms" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a40447d0-37d8-11dd-aabb-0000779fd2ac.html">Financial Times</a> is doing what it usually does - providing concise and honest insight into how the <del>elite</del> 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. </p> <ol> <li>We need to increase food production to feed the world. </li> <li>Yield-increasing science has worked before.</li> <li>The nay-sayers want to reduce output through organic agriculture.</li> <li>Monsanto, on the other hand, is investing in science. </li> <li>Therefore we ought to embrace GM technology to fight the food crisis. </li> </ol> <p>Almost everything about this argument is wrong. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/347"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/347#comment Ch.3. NAFTA, Immigration, Urban Farming Ch.4. Trade Agreements, Imperialism, Working Poor, Cold War Ch. 6. Pesticides, Genetic Engineering, Public Science, Cuba agribusiness California genetically modified United States Willets Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:36:04 -0600 Raj 347 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal