[pp.int.general] Artificial meat

[Nene]

Imho GM is NEVER about feeding the world but rather to make money. 

Currently we would be able to feed about 11.8 billion people if we would be eager to do so. (according to the UN special Rapporteur on the Right to Food J. Ziegler)

People are frequently not starving because of bad harvests or aridity but because of foreign food subventions, trade markets regulations and speculation with food on the futures market. Often they are starving or even killing themselves BECAUSE of genetic manipulated food, just google "Monsanto" in combination with "farmer's suicides" e.g.

As long as research is driven by corporations only interested in maximising profits, don't expect new innovations to be for a common good.

The only thing this could be good for is the CO2 reduction I guess. 

You might call this a pessimistic point of view, but - although I see myself as an irrepressible optimist - that's a point of view my study of politics and economics has brought me to :/

Cheers,
Nene



Am 24.02.2012 um 11:29 schrieb Marco Confalonieri <marco.confalonieri at email.it>:

> 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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