2 Responses to “Biotech Wheat to Ease World Food Shortage”

1. beyond biotech Says:
   June 25th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

   Yes, let’s grow seeds with increased yields and strict patents using wild genes so that we can further shrink the genetic gene pool, putting world food security at risk, allowing biotech companies to patent more of the world’s natural resources, and charge a mint for seeds to farmers, squeezing out the small farmer and advantaging the large one.

   Let’s do it so we can eat more meat (the UK/EU incentive - they are considering GM feed grains) so that we can further pollute the earth en mass with animal waste etc…while we use exorbitant amounts of water to generate a steak. Oh wait; what am I worried about - we can just use an incubator to grow our meat (someone alert PETA - it’s already been figured out.

   As for herbicide resistant plants - you don’t need GM for that. Just ask the Coca plant growers in Colombia. Traditional techniques work quite well. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/columbia.html

   We don’t need GM. We need social change. In the West/North/Industrialized/Developed whatever you want to call it society. We’ve become pigs.

2. David Alexander Says:
   July 4th, 2008 at 6:32 am

   We are up a creek - overpopulated, out of control. The search for an answer is urgent.

   As for genetically modified foods, at the very least they should be government owned and in the public domain. The US court decision to allow patenting genetics should be overridden if necessary by a constitutional amendment.

   Better yet, dramatically cut back consumption of all forms of meat and fish while we carefully work out how to reduce world population, reliance on diminishing oil, and do it without riots and starvation.

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