Doug Henwood:
> Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
>> It depends on what you mean by "more productive"
>> Increases rice production for *whom*?
>> WHO is the beneficiary of that increased production?
>> Read the subject line of the follow post.
>>
>> Also: It's *disingenous* to speak on this topic as if the plants in
>> question are simply
>> hybrids, and the goal is to feed more people, they aren't, they are
>> organisms previously
>> non-existant in our biosphere, and the motive is profit... Right?
>
> Well no shit. Small farmers are driven by the profit motive too.
>
> More productive in the sense that the same cultivated acreage now
> feeds more people than it used to. India's pop is up 145% since 1960.
>
> Were you competing for some kind of record for packing more leftist
> cliches into a tiny space?
>
Were they leftist? I didn't know. I have a hard time thinking in straight lines like: LEFT------------------------RIGHT, when the talk turns to what I consume(sic, double entendre intended).
What about this part?
>> Also: It's *disingenous* to speak on this topic as if the plants in
>> question are simply
>> hybrids, and the goal is to feed more people, they aren't, they are
>> organisms previously
>> non-existant in our biosphere, [dot dot dot]
No concerns?
Leigh www.leighm.net