A lot of my comfort with the old way of growing crops comes from the time it took to grow the crop, and see it change slowly over time. The other part of it was that these new human prompted crops were open for people to use, and once you got the grain from the farmer, nothing stops you from planting it yourself.
Also, when we discuss food scarcity, why do we insist that technology will save us? It wont, the food scarcity problem is an socio-architectural and political problem more than a technological problem.
It's not though. We don't consider America to have a scarcity of food, even though there are people starving there. Food scarcity happens when a region cannot produce its own food.
Shipping food to food scarce regions is not a sustainable solution to the problem of scarcity.
> These two extra genes expressed a protein in pig saliva that breaks down phosphorus – a nutrient farmers add to pig feed, but which becomes a pollutant when excreted. The project, which could have eradicated phosphorus pollution, was halted by regulatory and funding issues.
... A simpler solution would be to not add the phosphorus, no? The biggest problem with GMOs is that they're aimed at making organisms fit into supply chains better and avoid compatibility issues when there are less profitable solutions
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 12.2 ms ] threadAlso, when we discuss food scarcity, why do we insist that technology will save us? It wont, the food scarcity problem is an socio-architectural and political problem more than a technological problem.
Shipping food to food scarce regions is not a sustainable solution to the problem of scarcity.
... A simpler solution would be to not add the phosphorus, no? The biggest problem with GMOs is that they're aimed at making organisms fit into supply chains better and avoid compatibility issues when there are less profitable solutions