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"Without GMOs a billion people in India will not be alive today. So let's not give these people any more attention than they deserve." I'm going to go out on a
by aldoushuxley001 7y ago
"Without GMOs a billion people in India will not be alive today. So let's not give these people any more attention than they deserve."
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you don't have any evidence to back up this hyperbolic claim.
It doesn't help your case by making up data especially when you're denigrating psuedoscience in the same breath.
- ceejayoz 7y agoIt's not just India, and not just (or even largely) GMOs, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug > Borlaug was often called "the father of the Green Revolution", and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. According to Jan Douglas, executive assistant to the president of the World Food Prize Foundation, the source of this number is Gregg Easterbrook's 1997 article "Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity." The article states that the "form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths." He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply. https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/man-who-saved-billion-lives https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/man-who-saved-billio...
- mindfulplay 7y agoI should have explained my comment. It's about a strain called IR8 that yields more rice per hectare. This saved so many lives in India and elsewhere. And yes I am thinking of Norman Borlaug.