GMO Africa » GMOs and organics can alleviate food crises
Busy with planning experiments at the moment, but here is a great blog article extolling multiple food technologies to alleviate food shortage in the developing world. Its from a blog I have only just discovered, GMO Africa.
May 8, 2008 at 5:09 am
Thanks Robert for “amplifying” my blog post. We need to adopt the position that there is no silver bullet to the current food crisis. We need a combination of strategies to enhance food sustainability. We need organic farming, gene splicing and crop genetic engineering. Those who want to do crop genetic engineering should be allowed to do so without inhibitions. On the other hand organic farmers ought to be given a room to do their own farming. We should not try to goad them to do this or that. Let’s not have a situation where people or a organizations are telling farmers to avoid a particular mode of farming like plague. Currently, we have organizations such as the Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace telling farmers to avoid genetically modified foods. This is unfair. Nowhere I have heard biotech corporations advising farmers against planting organic crops. All what they do is to market their products and then leave farmers to make their own decisions.
By the way Roberts, I will add your blog to my blogroll. Please do the same for me. And drop me a line in case you have any question.