Posted on 10/30/2009 11:36:30 AM PDT by fpmadmin
Bill Gates took on the Famine Lobby while addressing a forum on the world food supply in Iowa. Speaking at the World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Gates took aim at the chorus of environmental leftists and organic food advocates who believe Africans should starve rather than eat genetically modified (GM) foods. “Some voices are instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity. They act as if there is no emergency, even though in the poorest, hungriest places on earth, population is growing faster than productivity,” he said.
So long as foodstocks are not contaminated with seed that is DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED to not yield crop WITH VIABLE SEED, sound like a go.
Come to think of it, is it possible to genetically encode the death of a strain after N-generations?
He doesn’t understand that these environmental groups actually WANT these Africans to starve, as they believe that human beings are the deadliest form of pollution (euphamistically called “carbon footprint”) to mother earth.
This is the wrong way to word this. Suggesting that the population is growing undercuts the need for more productive agricultural products and practices.
He reminds me of Michael Crichton who voiced the same some years before his death.
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