Bill Gates says ideology threatens hunger fix
source: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN15300517
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Gates said GMO crops, fertilizer and chemicals are important tools -- although not the only tools -- to help small farms in Africa boost production.
'This global effort to help small farmers is endangered by an ideological wedge that threatens to split the movement in two,' Gates said in his first address on agriculture made during the annual World Food Prize forum.
'Some people insist on an ideal vision of the environment," Gates said. "They have tried to restrict the spread of biotechnology into sub-Saharan Africa without regard to how much hunger and poverty might be reduced by it, or what the farmers themselves might want.'"
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JanforGore
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GMOs haven't increased crop yield and have brought monocultures that are killing biodiversity, and spreading transgenic contamination along with increased inputs at higher costs without being able to save seed. And judges in this country based on their most recent rulings on alfalfa and sugarbeets agree. How the hell do you feed people without having the ability to save seeds? He is just a corporate shill looking to make more profit. How many farmer suicides are enough for him?
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JanforGore
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BoomChaka
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its the first world countries that fight the hardest against gmo, but they also have the least to gain.
things are bad now just wait till global warming kicks in. a lot of places wont be able to have any kind of crop yield
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BoomChaka
