I understand the desire not to stay in the medieval ages, and I don’t want to either. The future, whether bright or not, is inevitably the direction in which I want to go. Without scientific progress, you wouldn’t be reading this today. However, to say that 7-10 years is long enough to know what genetically modified food does to our bodies does not seem long enough to me.
The pro-GMO argument I hear most often is being able to feed our growing population. From 1.5 billion people living on Earth in 1912, the population skyrocketed to 7 billion in 2012 and the number is only going to rise. Yet we have increased productivity and industrialization. In the developed world most of us enjoy a great standard of living, measurable by the year-long availability of food. And oh boy, we have lots. And oh boy, how much of it is wasted. It’s not true that we do not grow enough to feed the world’s population. If the majority of the crops wouldn’t be used as feed for livestock there would be no headlines about hunger in African countries.
Fun fact: One of the oldest agro-chemistry (pesticides) companies, Bayer, recently acquired Monsanto in a multi-billion dollar deal. If that’s the engagement of the devil and Satan, I wonder what would be served at the wedding party.
