Thus dooming thousands to famine.
University of California, Davis, researchers have identified a gene that enables resistance to a new devastating strain of stem rust, a fungal disease that is hampering wheat production throughout Africa and Asia and threatening food security worldwide.
Jim Jones was two decades early.
Bad news for Saskatchewan farmers. Next year Canola, I guess.
The anti-human anti GMO crowd will lobby against this, tell all sorts of lies and work to not let this go forward.
There are no production problems for wheat anywhere in the world with the exception of a small area in Africa.
These are numbers that end in 2014 but you get the picture; wheat production around the world has been outstripping demand hence wheat prices unlike prices for crops like canola have been less than stellar the last couple of years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production_statistics
Golden rice.
GMO! GMO! GMO! … NO GMO! NO GMO! NO GMO! … bleat the “alternative lifestyle” sheep. Every upper middle class Mom in Marin County will DEMAND flour with a NO GMO label … that is if they aren’t already boycotting flour as part of their GLUTEN-free protocol.
https://www.nongmoproject.org/gmo-facts/
In the absence of credible independent long-term feeding studies, the safety of GMOs is unknown. Increasingly, citizens are taking matters into their own hands and choosing to opt out of the GMO experiment
The same people who embrace the “science” of Global Warming … are actually SO ignorant to REAL science that they cannot even eat an ear of GMO corn, or GMO tomatoes … or WAIT … everything they eat has been GMO’ed. Idiots.
And the media will interview the anti-everything crowd, labeling their guests as “activists” when we all know that “activist” means “ill-informed sheep more interested in image than in facts.” Activists are people who have never actively produced anything (ie – held a real job) but love the airtime, and don’t provide their own financing.
You know, the Justin fans…
With all the fear about genetically-modified food crops, I’ve yet to hear of any of those plants mutating into something like Audrey from the movie The Little Shop of Horrors.
Talking about grain and this is OT:
As some SDA readers may know India has imposed a 50% tariff on imports of yellow peas effectively shutting the door to Canadian imports. A marketing news letter and I’m sorry I can’t find the link to the story has an interesting take on this issue. India is concerned about Canada over the fact that we don’t fumigate our grain shipments; the cold weather makes the practice redundant.
The newsletter states India has another issue with Canada, an issue not loudly spoken. Sikhs have been troublesome to the Indian government in their demands for their own homeland. Someone in the Indian government has noted the strong representation of Sikhs in Canada’s parliament; 2 Liberal cabinet members, a party leader representing the socialist NDP so I guess anything is possible.
‘My enemy here remains an enemy over there’
Agricultural research was responsible for the Green revolution of the 1960s (notably “green” was still a neutral descriptive term then); research into herbicides, pesticides and plant breeding allowed huge advances in crop production in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. The snotty “whole food set” are against almost all these advances and would turn all agriculture back to the past given the power to do so. This is grossly unfair. that a well off, well nourished, comfortable population in urban industrial countries can prevent third world people from eating adequately. Let them eat cake doesn’t begin to cover it.
That most of these people have never been near a farm and wouldn’t have a clue about producing food, only makes their ignorance stand out more.
PM Pixie Dust is more concerned about appearing to be “tolerant” and “diverse”. If India takes issue with who he selected for his cabinet, then he wouldn’t want Canada to trade with such a “bigoted” country, would he?
Meanwhile, he wouldn’t hesitate to sell Canada to the Chinese.
Turn back the clock to those pastoral days of the past…
And what do we do with the 6 BILLION PEOPLE that cannot be supported by old fashioned farming practices? Do they really expect millions of Africans, Asians, South Americans, and even “Oh So Sophisticated” Europeans and Americans to just peacefully lay down and die?
Margaret Sanger, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Adolph would be so proud of these people.
Exactly, and well said.
rd @ 6:59, that is part of the plan. Mo Strong’s dream.
if only they were the first to die.