Right on... that is the reason i get so bitchy when people at school start talking about food waste. People are not starving because i don't finish all of the green beans on my plate. People are starving because of the economic structures that dictate how those crops got grown, paid for, and distributed. trying to hold up the well being of farmers (i say this with irony because few family farmers would say the subsidies actually provide well being) as the reason we jack up prices on food is just evil.
The 3rd world needs to get its act together on GM foods though...that's the other part of the equation in my mind. they're worried about it contaminating their food...but the science is not really that new. Extensive cross breeding and selection isn't really that different from outright genetic modifcation. and if its going to feed more mouths, screw the prejuidices and fears....
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