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When you hear the words, "Think of the children," do you expect a rational discussion to follow? I'll do my best. Is "GM Bananas or starving children" a false
by raganwald 16y ago
When you hear the words, "Think of the children," do you expect a rational discussion to follow?
I'll do my best. Is "GM Bananas or starving children" a false dichotomy? If the world had no bananas, couldn't we use the plantations to grow something else?
- roc 16y agoThe idea that science itself can provide a further answer to "how do we feed starving children" is false in and of itself. There's no shortage of food or food-bearing land in the world today. The remaining problems are purely political problems of distribution and corruption and economic problems of perverted incentives (food aid crowding out regional and local farming).