[pp.int.general] Artificial meat

[Marko Mitrovic]

Marco Confalonieri is right. GMO ain't gonna help starving countries. Ever.
It is there just to increase productivity. Artificial market
distortions are the real problem.

I've never been to US of A, but I hear from lot of people who went
there that all the food, especially vegetables there taste the same.
They look like they're out of photoshop but taste is simply
incomparable with organic food back home. If that's the future of
nutrition where we are going, I'd rather buy myself small property on
countryside, two cows, few pigs and chickens and live proper life with
nice food.



On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Marco Confalonieri
<marco.confalonieri at email.it> wrote:
> Il 24/02/2012 10.49, Daniel Riaño ha scritto:
>> We are not against GMO food. We are against patenting GM forms of
>> life. Years ago, when I imagined something like that would happen
>> sooner than later, I accepted that this was inevitable, first for the
>> underdeveloped or overpopulated countries, then for the richer
>> countries. (And unless you imagine some way to convert housed cows'
>> methane in some sort of efficient energy, large farms of livestock
>> have already their days numbered.)
>
> I agree with your position on GMOs, but I don't think they are really
> the true solution to the world starvation: GMOs for food production were
> developed for economical reasons, and most of the agricultural GMOs
> implement "by design" a sort of "DRM": their seeds are almost sterile. I
> wrote a small article on that some years ago on this issue:
>
> http://www.piratpartiet.it/pdf/2010-06-04.pdf (in italian)
>
> Besides this, I think there are some weird "side effects" to the
> improvements in the food production chain: while a part of the world is
> dying from starvation, the other part produces so much food that its
> production must be strictly regulated, like "milk quotas" in the EU, or
> destroyed as in Sicily, an italian region, where farmers are PAID by the
> European Union to throw away oranges over a certain quota. I bet the
> same happens for many other types of fruits and vegetables across Europe.
>
> I was told that in the USA the same happen with meat (anyone from there
> can confirm or dismiss the information?)
>
> In summary, I think that before taking on GMOs, the distortions of the
> market should be addressed.
>
> --
> Marco Confalonieri
>
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