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An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus, 1798

• swalsh 12y ago
  I mean in a way, we kind of have been innovating "new food systems" for a pretty long time. By using genetic modifications we've found the ability to make plants immune to pesticides, reducing crops lost to bugs, and we've modified plants to have higher yields, or to travel better. We've also innovated ways to store crops, and to use them differently. The fact that we're even able to have this movement about organic crops is a testament to how far we've come. Of course there's still a very large part of the world that doesn't have the same food security we have. Now most of that could probably be solved by simply taking the things that work here, and using them "over there". But its possible that as the world keeps growing we'll have to keep finding better ways. Of course, even if quantity isn't an issue... we still need to innovate ways to improve quality, or to maintain sustainability. My point is, food is already pretty industrialized, and we probably need to maintain some research to keep it going.