DuPont Leader Says Increasing Food Production a Moral Imperative
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September 08, 2009
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- Ensuring food security for a growing world population is a moral imperative and plant breeders are being challenged to develop sustainable solutions using innovation that involves novel approaches and techniques to meet future demands, William S. Niebur, vice president - DuPont Crop Genetics Research & Development, told the second annual World Seed Conference here. Niebur's remarks reflect DuPont's recently announced commitment to focus on meeting four emerging global trends, one of which is increasing food production.
'We know some will want to debate methods and processes, the science, or our motives; but at the end of the day it is up to us as plant breeders to do everything we possibly can to help ensure no individual goes hungry,' said Niebur.
Agricultural output will need to double by 2050 to feed more than 9 billion people, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This increased productivity will need to occur as available arable land and resources shift, remain unchanged, or in some areas, decrease...
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MORALLY IRRESPONSIBLE
Big Oil / Big Chem / Big Farm have sold us a pig in a poke. Since oil and gasoline (and other high-profit items made from fossil fuels, like fertilizer and pesticides) could be sold for a profit, these Big Business leaders have tried to tell us that "What is Good for Them is Good For America" (and, therefore, the World).
Now, the chickens have come home to roost. Food supplies are not meeting demand because oil people (people fed oil-grown foods from birth) have been bred (indirectly) and used as a growth commodity.
Let the profiteers feed the starving millions (projected billions?)- these oil people are owned by them, literally. Otherwise, the Big Business model (as described above) will bankrupt the world.
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Found elsewhere on the web:
"If modern agriculture continues to follow the path it's on now, it's finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that's just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they're not products of real nature or real agriculture. They're manufactured rather than grown. The earth isn't producing those things... petroleum is!" - Masanobu Fukuoka
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