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Scientists usinggenetically modify being ( GMO)technology can relieve lives through pharmaceutical , can increase harvest yield to feed the world , and can grow works for biofuels and bioremediation . So why not employ it ?
For me , the answer is simply to calculate at the ancestor causes of the problem we are trying to clear , and require ourselves if we will be any more creditworthy with this new technology . Will we practice it to heal the world ’s wounds , or will we just make a large heap ?
Bigger , indeed . Bigger , stronger , faster , more productive . Is that why we need GMOs ? Are our motivations about carry through a demand or about fit our greed ?
For the sake of this article let ’s just calculate at the argument of using GMOs for feeding the man . We endure in a universe populated by 7 billion hungry backtalk , and that number is growing . An estimated one out of eight hoi polloi in the world do not have enough food . In America , there is no want of food for thought . We collectively throw away up to one-half of our groceries every Clarence Day . Some of this teemingness is because of GMO corn and soy bulge up our process food and our plentiful belly . It is not a question of supplies running short today . We have more than enough , yet our communities are still malnourished .
The faster we transfer our foods , the farther aside we separate it from our souls , our tone and our vitality . The harder nutrient is to bear , imbibe and realize at a molecular level , our bodies ’ wisdom might not understand that this object is meant to become part of our self .
Where do we line up timber rather than quantity ? Our guts tell us . Wilder intellectual nourishment , fermented food , tedious food , paleo solid food , anti - instigative food — these are what nourish us and prise our dead body by recognise that our intelligence agency does not have to outpace our instincts . Growing more corn and soybean is not sustain anyone . It is depleting biodiversity at every level .
Our landscape and wildlife reflect our health . taste working with nature , on nature ’s terms . It may not happen in our life-time , but it ’s possible to fill a land with abundance even after it has been abused . Nature is resilient , and human survival is not its farthest goal . We are just one piece of the elephantine puzzle of cap - lambert Life . We are like an isolated gene inserted into a complex organism — the world — and if we can coexist , the bigger body will not turn down us . Have n’t we learned anything from ball-shaped climate alteration ?
Genetically isolating characteristics is a reflection of the isolation in our modern lives . It ’s a microcosm of how we isolate ourselves rather than lock and participate in divers community of interests . We isolate vitamin and minerals and other nutrients that commonly occur in whole intellectual nourishment , and now we can deplete extremely treat meals with a side peach of plastic - bottled appurtenance .
adjudicate permaculture . Try wildcrafting . Try admit a paseo in the woods instead of the treadmill . Take your earbuds out and listen to the birds . You ’ll become athirst for real - cape , raw - ness and genuineness . You ’ll recognize a craving for seasonal food for thought . Share your homegrown tomato with your neighbors and memorise how to can . Then we wo n’t need Flavr Savr tomatoes , however unobjectionable they may look . perhaps you wo n’t develop diabetes that has to be treated with insulin made with GMO technology . Maybe you ’ll die a natural death at a natural time .
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GMO technology is a touchy guinea pig . Do you think there ’s a way to use this skill for good ?
Posted byHobby FarmsonTuesday , August 4 , 2015
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