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Originally Posted by legion
I haven't seen the movie, but I've seen/read many things on the topic.
You do realize that food is produced the way it is produced for a reason, right? If it wasn't done this way, there would be mass starvation. We have developed a system that produces the most food possible using limited resources.
If everything was grown organically, or all livestock was free range, we wouldn't be able to make enough food to feed everyone in the country, let alone export like we currently do. Go ahead, compare crop yields on organic crops to those conventionally grown. Compare the head per acre on free range cattle versus the standard stock.
And that doesn't even address the economic impact. If all food was produced the way these people want it produced, only the very wealthy could afford to eat. Throughout human history, the primary nutritional problem was lack of calories. We have finally solved that problem in the last 60 years. This is a huge accomplishment for mankind. It is better to be fat with some health problems than starving and eventually dead.
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You really need to dig a bit deeper... Mexico had hardly any malnutrition in the past... but since they started using Monsanto corn, things went down hill real fast.
The Genetically Manipulated corn may yield bigger crops, the corn itself, is pretty much useless in a stable diet... It has almost no nutrition in it...
It's hard to find any information on that, because Monsanto pretty much spams every place there could be any kind of information... with FUD...
The kind of FUD you recycled...
America is the land of the fat and obese.. (no offence intended, i'm not trying to call names here..) So there is no need whatsoever, to produce such quantities of food..
the US population (Europe as a close second), would be a lot healthier if there was less but better quality food..
Food that has good nutrition, not food that is easy to make in large volumes and poor quality.