An article on The End Of Life As We Know It

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If Cuba is everybody's favorite success story, North Korea is the opposite.

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[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. The Real issues round peak oil and climate change are scary enough and complex enough without borrowing trouble.
Despite popular protestations by greenpeace and other anti GM food organizations to the contry, GM food contains no animal bits, Now admittedly my source for the next statement is pen and teller's bullshit program, so it's also probalby a little dubious, but monsetro claims to have been working, not so much on yeild increasing or what ever but on attempting to disease harden by increasing genetic diversity.
Yeah they will own patents on the genotypes (I never said they were GOOD, did I?) but at least someone other than drippy idiots who over inflate figures and confuse bullshit statistics for science are worried about the same disease issues that matter.
Where Do I think the answer lies? My childhood experences with my grandfathers fam makes me think somwehre in between. Industrilized farming hits a point of diminishing returns fairly quickly. Pure organic farming, espicaly with the depleted seedstocks available to people in the 21st centruy would meen that one good blight and we all starve.
The only way we are gonna get back the genetic diversity we need to divorce ourselves from petrochem based pesticides and fertilizers is to geneticly modify the hell out of what we have left in the hopes we can tailor environment specific strains of multiple types of geneticly diverse crops.
So yeah. Basicly, I'm anti "anti gm food", predominatly becasue I'm convinced that most anti Gm campaginers have never cropepd anything bigger than a small garden patch.