spamtrap1888 wrote:
> On May 22, 9:00 am, ImStillMags > wrote:
>> This article pretty much echoes my own thoughts about our food supply
>> and the food products available today.
>>
>> http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012...com-locavore-t...
>>
>> Love to hear your thoughts on the article.
>
> But one of the goals of GMO was to reduce the amount of pesticide used
> by allowing plants to make their own pesticides.

But haven't I read that these plants end up requiring even more
pesticides?
>
> The fundamental flaw of the article is that it ignores that there are
> far more hungry mouths to feed than can be filled by a few small-scale
> growers. This is like the Titanic's first-class passengers' thinking
> there are plenty of lifeboats -- for them. But what of the second- and
> third-class passengers? Further, even if all our food came from
> smallholders, most people just want to be able to go to the store and
> pick up a dozen eggs -- they do not prize knowing the name of the
> chicken who laid them. They would see people who do care as freakish,
> obsessed with what they put in their mouths.



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Jean B.