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> The rejection of modern agricultural methods, genetic engineering, and the utilization of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides is exclusively the prerogative
by jraph 2y ago
> The rejection of modern agricultural methods, genetic engineering, and the utilization of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides is exclusively the prerogative of wealthy humans living in developed, largely Western nations
Here we are. The article criticizes environmentalists against pesticides but never addresses environmental concerns. Convince me that "GMOs making pesticides resistant bad because most pesticides bad, because it harms the environment of which people are part" is false first.
What keeps the poor hungry is keeping the poor poor. The solution to this political choice is not a technical answer.