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What else does it do and what cost? What is the cost benefit analysis of the rice research center?
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
What else does it do and what cost? What is the cost benefit analysis of the rice research center?
- jeffbee 5y agoLet's see, one of the benefits is probably that we're not all starving to death right now. Not sure if there are others. I guess you could get rid of it to save every American 5¢ annually and trade that for a chance of a future rice disease wiping out our crops. That might make sense, in the same way that the Texas electric grid is very efficient.
- dylan604 5y agoJust wait until the populace at large finds out what is happening to their bananas. People will be screaming about why there was no American Banana Bureau Association
- markdown 5y agoGotta give the last President props for doing more than any President before him to try and turn the US into a banana republic.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoWhere is the evidence it prevents starvation? Most of the crops in the US are wheat, soybeans, and corn. The rice crop is negligible. They could use that in other crops.
- heavyset_go 5y agoThe USDA ARS has dozens of labs and research centers for wheat, soybeans, corn and more[1]. [1] https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/find-a-location/ https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/find-a-location/
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThat has nothing to do with the rice research. I’m not against ARS I’m debating the usefulness of the rice sector.
- germinalphrase 5y agoPerhaps, we view it as in our interests that people in other countries aren’t starving?
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThere is no proof of that, the fact that most crops are destroyed to prevent food prices from crashing and how milk farmers are pouring their milk down the drain is proof to the contrary.
- germinalphrase 5y agoDairy producers in wisconsin dump milk and put artificially short ‘sell by’ dates on their packages because they need to maintain a regular flow of product out the doors (and cash flow in) to maintain their operation. Milkers don’t keep producing milk if they aren’t milked regularly. Whether or not the US funds rice research because poor allies can’t seems completely disconnected.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThat is an example of waste, the US has so much wasted crops they make HFCS from corn and biodiesel from it, there is no shortage of the big 3 crops, nor is there evidence these institutions do any worthwhile work. They gave Japanese wheat during WW2 and the Japanese invented instant noodles. There is no evidence of any benefit of this rice research, and nobody has proven otherwise.
- germinalphrase 5y ago
- stonogo 5y agoRice is the third-largest grain crop in the country. The US is the fifth-largest exporter of rice on Earth. "Negligible" is a ridiculous descriptor.
- sonofhans 5y ago> Let's see, one of the benefits is probably that we're not all starving to death right now. This right here. Our short-sighted attitude towards fundamental public infrastructure like this never ceases to amaze me.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThe US relies on corn, soybeans and wheat. The rice research doesn’t show any evidence of functionality.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoWhat was the cost benefit analysis of quantum mechanics related research before it became one of the building blocks of many modern technologies?
- kyruzic 5y agoRice is quite literally the only reason the earth can support 7 billion people. Its cost benefit analysis is making sure we don't all die.
- joebob42 5y agoWell, no, we've already got rice. Maybe these people are making it better, but just the fact that rice is valuable doesn't justify anything on its own.