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Also productivity, there would be a lot less food available without it, and I imagine it would be close to impossible to manage pests and diseases in a 200km w

• Retric 10y ago
  There is a huge range of pesticides. Also, the US has such a massive food surplus producing less food is a viable option.
  • dogma1138 10y ago
    The US won't be affected, neither would be Europe the rest of the world well.... It's all nice when we talk about organic food and about being ok with paying 10$ for couple of ecofriendly organic fair traded tomatoes but some one in India won't be able to afford that, heck many people in the US won't be able to afford them either. Banning GMO's is all nice and dandy but all what we do is push farmers to produce "premium" crops that can be sold at 10 times the price while producing 1/4th of the amount which would leave allot of people hungry. A framer doesn't care how many people he feeds he only cares about the button line if he can make more money by feeding less people with organic food the fact the some one will go hungry won't really be in that equation.
    • Retric 10y ago
      We produce more than a 10x calorie surplus globally, hunger is a separate issue mostly relating to livestock.