RE: Perspective on Progress, Part 2
I think I under stand what you say here. My issue with genetically modified food has never been the one of contention but rather of elimination of choices by market manipulators. Suddenly the cheapest available grain type becomes extinct from the market not because the grain died natural death of elimination but because the grain was easy to use but was deemed unworthy by a group scientist as an optimal solution for our food vows.
My father is a farmer so I have certain perspective when I talk about food. In these times people literally have too much in their food pantry and too little in their heads. I don't say this as a condescension but rather as a comparison to what our ancestors had to go through in harsher times and how they were able survive through it. In the end I believe that people need a cause in their life and sometimes they just stick to the option closest to their hearts and mind (namely food).
Sure our food problems have been solved to some extent but let's also leave a room for debate, lest we might convert the act of consumption of food into solely a commercial one.
Don't forget that, never before have we had excess food on a global scale. As a farmers son, you would have undoubtedly heard the stories of how much work is really necessary to get food to our plates.
In fact, in the US, overtime pay is not mandatory for agricultural workers. ontop of that again, most farmers work 12+ hour days. All because the government subsidizes our crops. This pushes the industry to reduce overhead cost through high yield crops and automated systems.
So food is cheap and plentiful to the point where we have a new problem. A lack of food diversity, Inflammation of the gut because of gmo foods and many more. But it beats starving to death. The point about taking back land due to more efficient food growth is a great idea if it actually pays to do that. In the US atleast, most people do not live near agricultural lands, so there's nothing to do with the new land except reforest it. All the while more and more people pack in cities with the ever growing number of automated jobs holding the uneducated back.
New times indeed!
Exactly!
I actually don't have gripe with either side of the coin. My argument is meant to kept the discussion of food and edibles open and on the table and as far away as possible from manipulation. When dietary regulations of nations begin to get effected not by the economic policy but by the corporate policies.................. that's about the time we need to start kicking some shins and wake up a few people.
We're gonna need to get everyone woke to understand food. It's a bit nuts, but everyone wants to make sure people have food atleast. It's just a new problem about having healthy food rather than the same 5 grains that everyone grows. One day...