"Victorian farmers have welcomed reports that the Victorian Government will give farmers the choice to grow genetically modified crops, effectively breaking ranks with other Labor states that have imposed moratoria on GM production.
"According to The Age, sources close to Premier Steve Bracks say the government is satisfied there is almost zero risk associated with GM crops and the ban "will be allowed to expire next year".
Read the complete article at Farm Online: http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=42448
So are you volunteering to go Lamna? Overpopulation is the number one problem of this world but I have a will to live ... You?
Schiller what erks me is that we have people with no experience in food production dictating how we can and can't grow food. Granted not every farmer is the smartest cookie in the jar but some of us have meaningful solutions for a more sustainable future. GM is NOT the solution, GM is part of it, allowing us to breed back survivability traits decades of conventional breeding disposed of because they generally compromised yield to the assumption oil would always be cheap. Well clearly that was a dangerous path to take ...
Can we avoid a die-off? I doubt it ... but we must do our best to at least have a sustainable agricultural base to whatever equilibrium population can be supported. Food for fuel is a crazy notion but it only happens because humans are undervalueing food commodities ...
Much of this discussion is based on accepting the disturbing premise that it is appropriate to dictate others' business to them.
Once that noxious notion is swallowed, the only remaining arguments are over what we should force people to do, and why.
Which is equally noxious.
'Credibility comes from solution suggestions' - Aaron
As I have repeatedly stated in past threads on many forums, human over population is the source of the problem and contraception is neither difficult nor expensive Edmonds....and unlike your fantasy suggestion that GM crops will replace oil and at the same time feed an ever expanding population, it works.
What the same scientific rigour that was carried out when all important agricultural crops were adopted? ANd I am sure if we had 20 years to scientifically verify to a 'European' standard then maybe it would be done. But because of resource constraints now hitting everywhere I'd say there is a sense of urgency to bring marginal lands into production around the globe yesterday.
Lamna Asus your predicament is unchanged by your apparent wisdon. World grain stocks continue to fall, world food prices continue to rise and as of yet in all your posteuring you have failed to alert the thread to any technology or system of food production that can halt the global calamity from occurring you seem surprisingly relaxed about. Just what is it you are argueing about? A confused lot you Europeans. Adopt the moral highground until the resource base around you starts to hyperinflate in price and disappear from stockpiles.
Just imagine where vegetable oil futures would be without the high yielding GM soy crops coming out of South and North America? Palm is GMed yet it continues to rise suggesting perhaps there is a problem with supply relative to demand ... theres that 101 again.
So put up some constructive comments if indeed you have any. Its easy to be critical (and avoid sunburn). Credibility comes from solution suggestions ... ah but then again you can't have solutions if you don't acknowledge problems. Obviously your wife does the shopping ...