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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregore" data-source="post: 3323026" data-attributes="member: 134847">The question of feeding the worlds hungry is a huge one and it has a different answer in ever country and region , but one thing it is not is a food sortage problem .We have been fed this lie  of lack of food so many times that we think it is true . Not to say it is never true  , but enough so that we do not need them using GMO crops that they certainly can not afford. Also they will never use them as they do not trust us because in the 70s we sold them the green revolution where we exported our old based fertilizer system to them and it destroyed their soil. Now they know better than to trust us.The soil in the middle of the USA has faired better becuase it was once all prairie with loam that went down 20 plus feet ( most loam only goes 3 or so feet). But as it decreased we put more and more fertilizer on it to get things to grow well. To the point where new research is showing that over that over a 15 year spread organic farming is producing as much as oil based ( conventional ) And GMO is certainly not the answer , as I mentioned earlier they are failing ,we spend 10 to 15 years developing a GmO and Mother Nature slips around it in 5 years or so . That is a battle we can not win.And soon we will not have to , as Mother Nature has beat us on the antibiotic front , we now have almost no antibiotics left that still work well , and the best one we had just showed resistance in an area of china a month or so ago . What that means for all those that can not remember what it was like ( and that is most of us) is that even a thorn scratch from a rose could kill you . The first person ever saved with antibiotics was sick from a rose thorn scratch .Looks like Mother Nature will do the culling of the species that is over populating .</blockquote>

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