Soil Association throws doubts on figures for increased food requirements.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8946555.stm
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Much more food not needed says SA
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Well, much could be done to avert problems if there was less waste of the food we do grow,. and if we voluntarily limit our reproductive capabilities, lets get real, earths rescources are finite, till we find another planet to colonise.
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NB - I do agree with the waste aspect. It happens because we're too affluent in the West. Supermarkets have psychologically blackmailed encourage people to expect perfect looking food so that they can force them to pay higher prices and make more profit. If a lot of fruit and veg didn't go to waste and everything was eaten we could perhaps grow less and need fewer artificial chemicals put into the soil to keep up its fertility. I wonder if thousands of gallons of milk are poured down drains because the product is somehow imperfect? Don't really know what happens in the diary industry but if less was thrown away or wasted, food prices might be cheaper.
Hi Primrose,
Just one of the comments printed after the BBC website article.
"Nobody should take any prediction that far into the future seriously. On the other hand, the Soil Association wants to move the world backwards in agriculture, not forwards. They and the rest of the anti-technology anti-GM comfortable middle class (i.e. rich) are part of the problem, not part of the solution."
W Boucher, Cambridge, UK
To me that is an exceedingly well thought-out comment especially the last sentence!
JB.
Just one of the comments printed after the BBC website article.
"Nobody should take any prediction that far into the future seriously. On the other hand, the Soil Association wants to move the world backwards in agriculture, not forwards. They and the rest of the anti-technology anti-GM comfortable middle class (i.e. rich) are part of the problem, not part of the solution."
W Boucher, Cambridge, UK
To me that is an exceedingly well thought-out comment especially the last sentence!
JB.