Farmers require tools to feed all world's hungry

[hobbyfrmr]

Crop life is not saying the whole world, just the world that can afford to grow biotech crops. They don't really care what happens with the production after its grown just as long as their technology is bought, and bought every year.

I agree. Crop life is the fert and chem companies "beeyotch". They are presenting a sad and twisted version of reality for the general public. It deflects away from this fact.

Monsanto and company are not interested in small scale poor farmers because they can't make money from them.

WD9 and Chuck are very smart people.

I have always carried mixed emotions with farming and starving people. My neighbor is a 50,000 acre farmer, he grows the very biggest and very best crops and is a teriffic, highly efficient farmer. He is also a decent person. There are still people starving. This guy, one farm production unit, will grow (my fast and rough math) 1.5 million bushels of oats, 875,000 bushels of canola and 750,000 bushels of wheat. There are still people starving. To fix a political disfunction with agronomics is naive at best. Thank God we do not have to run from bullets.

[tman]

Good post chuck. I get a kick out of the industry when they try to get philosophical about feeding the world. I interpret this as their way of justifying flawed production practices to the public, or to themselves. If we truly wanted to get philosophical and talk about feeding the world which is very socialistic, which is the basis of true Christianity (at least from what I've heard), then we need to change. Changes including crops grown to plant breeding to North Americans NOT shoveling their faces full of food and becoming obese. Of course a lot or most of that food that is making North Americans fat is NOT food. If we actually start growing food on all of our acres instead of pseudo food then we can start talking philosophically.

But of course, that's not where this industry is at.

Now I must get back to help harvest the family's bin busting canola crop. (that was said with tongue in cheek as Adler would say).