Early Cuyler;1196934 wrote:Wow, for once I will actually agree with CoA! As someone heavily involved in agriculture, I think we should focus on simply HAVING enough food to feed our ever-growing global population. If that means utilizing new technology and GMO's, then so be it...
This would be great if evolution just played out. The people who ate the "fake food" or succumb to the side effects of consuming the wrong stuff would not reproduce or survive. However, it's ass-backwards today. We have an increased number of starving people, and when I say starving, I'm talking about nutrient-deficient people. Many of these people are eating 3 meals a day, but they are increasingly overfed and undernourished. Although it's far more complicated, this leads to the majority of disease and health problems, which we then treat with drugs and medications, which allows this population to outlive their natural ability and the population grows faster than they die off. Of course, as it increases, the health issues become more and more genetic, adaptations get made to the drugs and the negatives and we end up with a larger society of more unhealthy people. At some point, there will be a tipping point and it will spill over. We can only keep up for so long.
Again, this could be a huge thread itself, but the answer is NOT to make food out of chemicals to attempt to solve hunger. There is zero precedent for it to ever work...
