Agricultural Biotech and Development Economics (Politics And Prose)

Title: Agricultural Biotech and Development Economics
Description: From the Atlantic Monthly

Lorpius Prime - July 20, 2007 09:29 AM (GMT)

Fun article:

http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articl...anet/index.html

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Will Frankenfood Save the Planet?

The Atlantic Monthly, October 2003

THAT genetic engineering may be the most environmentally beneficial technology to have emerged in decades, or possibly centuries, is not immediately obvious. Certainly, at least, it is not obvious to the many U.S. and foreign environmental groups that regard biotechnology as a bête noire. Nor is it necessarily obvious to people who grew up in cities, and who have only an inkling of what happens on a modern farm. Being agriculturally illiterate myself, I set out to look at what may be, if the planet is fortunate, the farming of the future.

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RancerDS - July 20, 2007 06:13 PM (GMT)

Very interesting read. Am going to have to back for a second time to try to commit more to memory.

Few things to mention. That's GREAT that they'll spend money on biotech research which doesn't pay the dividends to the factor of prescription drugs. And that's pretty impressive to develop a strain of plant life that can not only survive the greater salinity found in the world's oceans but to actually thrive from it.

The last thing to note is that Mid-American (heartland) farmers don't spell "ploughed" that way. They spell it as "plowed". The former either comes from some bloody Brit or probably more likely some New Englanders (maybe Quakers?). Not many Bostonians are into raising large tracts of crops. :)

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