What happens if the rest of the world wont buy our crops

[ColevilleH2S]

Those transposed comments made me laugh.
Straight out of a Marxist convention.
Too funny.

Someone should pass the memo to these
people. If it weren't for greed we'd all
still be naked and foraging for roots on
the savanna.

[charliep]

try 3.

[URL="http://www.ncga.com/upload/files/documents/pdf/kbyg-table1-print_2.21.2012.pdf"]article[/URL]

[pourfarmer]

Worked!! thanks for the link

[charliep]

I'll add another article I note in my review of newsletters (this one food navigator again).

[URL="http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Monsanto-to-pull-the-plug-on-GM-lobbying-and-activities-in-Europe/?utm_source=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm _campaign=Newsletter%2BWeekly&c=jYz%2BwZTNAeW9lrhh H8Fr7g%3D%3D"]Food-Navigator[/URL]

I will highlight that Triffid and the potential fallout from the discovery of the RR gene in the US will be the result of not following the rules as established by different regions.

You also asked why consumers 33 countries do not want the GE crops and not so sure I have a good answer. 27 of these countries could be European (highlighted in the article above). As an economist, my weird answer it would be peoples perception of risk and a response to something they don't understand.

I am going to give you 3 things I am likely to eat today that involve risk. The toast I ate this morning that may have RR wheat flour (also lathered with canola margarine). A lettuce salad (maybe even organic) that I eat staight out of the bag without washing and cooking. The bag of Doritos corn chips that call for me every afternoon. Each one of these foods pose a risk to my health and yet I will eat them.

[bucket]

And there is probably a better chance you getting hit by a bus, car or train that suffering any ill effects of what you ate.

Just saying there seems to be no balance to this whole food safety issue. The alternative is starving which people are still doing in parts of the world.

Can we feed the world and fix starvation, sure, but people have to realize there is a trade off.

Starvation can not be a kind death.

[furrowtickler]

Or we could pump raw sewage on or crops for
nutrients much like the organic veggie 's.

[pourfarmer]

pump raw sewage on organic vegetables?
that doesnt seem like a very good
idea... i cant imagine the
person/company that did that stayed in
business for very long.

Im not sure if you're aware but there
are several 'organic' farming practices
that do not involve raw sewage. For
example, green manure plow downs,
composted manure broadcasting, humate
based liquid fertilizers, there are lots
of options out there.

[dalek]

It just amazed me how many people today have lost all
sense of perspective when it comes to risk.

[hobbyfrmr]

Actually a few years back there was a group of
toronto commuters complaining about the
farmer on the outskirts of the city and how
offensve the smell was from the stuff he was
injecting into soil. They were so offended i think
they hired a lawyer to stop the activity.
Ultimately the product was city sewage effluent.
I do not remember the outcome.
Why does every farmer think he is feeding a
starving world? We grow a commodity to sell on
the market. Once it gets dumped through the
grates, and farmer gets his cheque, he/she are
not thinking, thank God i delivered that grain.
There will be food for the starving masses.
Pretty good chance mr. Farmer is hoping after
paying his machines, labour, fert, chem , land
bills, that there is enough for a few beers at the
lake and a 60 inch tv to impress the kids and
watch hockey. No need for anyone to become
holyer than thou. Its just life in Canada

[rkaiser]

Death from starvation????? What the hell are you talking about bucket. If that's the kind of bull shit that keeps you going, no one will ever help you. Like I have said a number of times, I have been farming all my life and the long and the short is that you need to make a living off your land, just like I do. But this BS about starvation screws with my lid. Do you see the ads on this site from multinational companies? What about everywhere else you look? The money these companies pay for advertising, let alone the profits they give shareholders and pay CEO's would feed every hungry person on the planet. There are truly not that many starving from no food any more bucket.

What about the waste. Again way more than enough to feed the world. What about ethanol production from grain. And on and on.

And even a bigger mess we have to clean up is visible at Wal Mart bucket. Know why those people are so fat? Malnutrition. Due to the FACT that the food products we raise have little nutrition left in them and the ones that have sugar and fat and no nutritional value due to chemical inputs at the farm level are cheap.

Believe it or not oneoff, we got a mess to clean up on this planet and it has to start at the grass roots level. Believing --- like bucket ---- that we are the good guys feeding the starving is not going to cut it.

So this starvation death you talk of is nasty hey bucket. Ever seen a man wither away from 200 pounds to 90 from cancer?

If Canadian farmers had the guts to ALL move away from chemicals on the farm and chemicals in their animals (and by the way - piss on organic rules - just quit the chemicals) and raise crops naturally ---- we could still supply all of Canada's needs and have other countries knocking on our door for food.

Where are all of the economist on this page? Ever heard of supply and demand. Rather than overproduction and captive supply marketing by a few multinational corporations.



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