You are only two generations removed from a society in which for the working man a very igh perecntage of his wages went for food.
In fact, after food and lodging, there was very little money left.
A man and his mule could farm only about 30 acres. It took dawn to dark to farm and to cut the wood and tend the animals.
If we would return to that kind of farming, most of the country would starve.
As for the damage done to us by gene modified foods, millions if not billions of tons of food have been eaten. If the were as dangerous as the chicken littles contend, most of us would already be dead.
Instead, we are living longer (the major problem for social security liquidity other than politicians who steal) and we are healthier.
GM foods enable the farmer to farm thousands of acres of soybeans or corn by himself. Not the few acres our grandparents were restricted to.
We are lucky.
It is amazing to me how many people condemn the very things that enable them to have the time, the money and the facilities to complain about that which maintains them.
Plowing behind a mule and weeding with a hoe is not something you want to do for a living.
“A man and his mule could farm only about 30 acres. It took dawn to dark to farm and to cut the wood and tend the animals.
If we would return to that kind of farming, most of the country would starve.”
Right, but that just means use tractors, not screw around with the DNA of our food. It does not mean “add poison to food”.
Ban all GMO.
Oh jeez... there you go, making sense.
That’s not well received around these parts. :-)
Mostly true, food production and the amount of a budget that goes to purchasing food has fallen since the 60’s.
I don’t have an issue with that per se, my issue is the sloppy practices and downright extortion (imo) that is being used to propagate GMO’s and GE’s and what have you.
If a farmer is willing to have lower yields due to have an organic crop that they believe they can make more money from selling, then Monsanto should not then impose their negligence upon that business.
As can be seen in this thread, some are willing to pay more for a non altered product, why should Monsanto be allowed to deny them what they wish to purchase?