"Genetically-modified" food.

[gridlore]

OK, quick rant.

I am sick to death of people freaking over genetically modified food. It's not poisonous, it's not unnatural, it is in fact just a faster method of the breeding techniques that turned this into this.

GM foods are more resistant to disease and insects. They can be made to grow in soils that are normally to weak of alkaline to support food crops. Plants can be bred to resist herbicides. There are over 6 billion people on this planet. Personally, I think we need to find ways to feed them all.

This came from a post in Kiri's journal about Mother's Cookies being saved by Kellogg's. Rather than rejoice about the best cookies in the West being saved, people began whining. You do not whine about my access to Iced Oatmeal cookies being restored.

Comments

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think we need to find ways to feed them all.

GM food's not going to help places like Zimbabwe.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Nope. Shooting Mugabe and his cronies is where you need to start there. But I was thinking of places like the Horn of Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Western Australia.