Comments on: Paarlberg and Ronald: A Food Fight http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/future_of_food/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: anxora http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/future_of_food/comment-page-1/#comment-150146 anxora Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:52:01 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1910#comment-150146 Hello! What do you think to be the potential of precision farming with GPS around the world? How many farmers are actually using GPS technology? Hello!

What do you think to be the potential of precision farming with GPS around the world? How many farmers are actually using GPS technology?

]]> By: BillinDetroit http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/future_of_food/comment-page-1/#comment-149976 BillinDetroit Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:00:26 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1910#comment-149976 Myopia. The GE stuff breeds with the environmentally proven ancient stocks ... resulting in an increased tendency towards monoculture, not, as Ronald intimated, less. " In fact, after seven years of pesticide reductions in Bt cotton fields in China, populations of other insects increased so much that farmers had to resume spraying certain insecticides." But now, ALL the cotton has the Bt gene ... and ALL the cotton will be vulnerable to any organism that develops a taste for it. And the spraying, after a reduction (not elimination) of ONLY 7 YEARS, has resumed as before. There is, additionally, the issue of "failure to notify", which has pushed US citizens into choosing between growing their own food and participating in a massive feeding experiment. Simply put, a shopper in a market has no way of knowing whether they are buying GE food or not. The one thing we can be certain of is that humans have not evolved with this food in our diets. We are marching off into terra incognita behind the scientists again ... the same people who gave us the dust bowls of the 1920's ... as we experiment with the food supplies of the entire earth. To even suggest such a thing is insane. Myopia.
The GE stuff breeds with the environmentally proven ancient stocks … resulting in an increased tendency towards monoculture, not, as Ronald intimated, less.
” In fact, after seven years of pesticide reductions in Bt cotton fields in China, populations of other insects increased so much that farmers had to resume spraying certain insecticides.”

But now, ALL the cotton has the Bt gene … and ALL the cotton will be vulnerable to any organism that develops a taste for it. And the spraying, after a reduction (not elimination) of ONLY 7 YEARS, has resumed as before.

There is, additionally, the issue of “failure to notify”, which has pushed US citizens into choosing between growing their own food and participating in a massive feeding experiment. Simply put, a shopper in a market has no way of knowing whether they are buying GE food or not. The one thing we can be certain of is that humans have not evolved with this food in our diets.

We are marching off into terra incognita behind the scientists again … the same people who gave us the dust bowls of the 1920’s … as we experiment with the food supplies of the entire earth.

To even suggest such a thing is insane.

]]> By: Paarlberg and Ronald: A Food FightPart Two : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/future_of_food/comment-page-1/#comment-146532 Paarlberg and Ronald: A Food FightPart Two : OUPblog Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:28:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1910#comment-146532 [...] Ronald: A Food FightPart Two", url: "http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/food-2/" }); Yesterday we posted part one in our dialogue between Robert Paarlberg (who recently published Starved For Science) and Pamela [...] [...] Ronald: A Food FightPart Two”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/food-2/” }); Yesterday we posted part one in our dialogue between Robert Paarlberg (who recently published Starved For Science) and Pamela [...]

]]> By: Tante Lissy’s Pflaumenkuchen (Plum Cake) : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/future_of_food/comment-page-1/#comment-146518 Tante Lissy’s Pflaumenkuchen (Plum Cake) : OUPblog Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:24:04 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1910#comment-146518 [...] Science) and Pamela Ronald (author of Tomorrow’s Table). Check out part one of their discussion here. To whet your appetite we excerpted a recipe from Ronald’s book for Plum Cake. Ronald goes on [...] [...] Science) and Pamela Ronald (author of Tomorrow’s Table). Check out part one of their discussion here. To whet your appetite we excerpted a recipe from Ronald’s book for Plum Cake. Ronald goes on [...]

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