Whats the debate?
There are wider arguments to be understood, and it is extremely damaging to those promoting proper debate around farming methods and bioscience to discourage people from understanding wider problems: food security, famine, cash crops, F1 sterility, unforeseen risks to other species from cross-pollination, biodiversity, the increased use of fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides for GM crops, exploitation of farmers, dependence on biotechnology companies. Intensive farming will not feed the world. It never has and never will. The world already produces enough food, but economics mean that it flows towards the rich (consumers) from the poor (producers). Read more at www.wfp.org (the World Food Programme). Economics, not farming, is the problem, but biotech promoters continue to ignore that. It is in bad faith to focus exclusively on simplistic and partial arguments focussing exclusively on carbon emissions in the case of a consumer’s choice to buy organic or non-organic food.
