Future Food: How Scientists And Startups Are Changing The Way We Eat http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-and-startups-changing-how-we-eat-2014-7/comments en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 10:08:42 -0500 Diane Galligan http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bc2966ecad04c00ae57a52 Darren Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:24:54 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bc2966ecad04c00ae57a52 Example, Blue fin tuna, it makes great sushi, right. Now we have overfished and an endangered species; so we legally protect the fish, problem solved. NO, now one fish is worth hundreds of thousand of dollars. The incentive to poach is pretty high. You can't police the entire sea and its easy to hide one fish in port. Bye bye wild blue fin. Same for rhinos. We are about to loose a bunch of almond trees in CA from a drought not because we don't have the water but it is diverted so people can take showers. I could add to this list all day but you get the point we are heading for big time problems. If we had a smaller population of humans then none of the above would be issues. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bc2647eab8ea5359e57a55 Pesticide Pushers Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:11:35 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bc2647eab8ea5359e57a55 GMOs are disguised as a "way to feed the world". In reality they're a plot to sell more pesticides and to create a monopoly on the world's food supply for a few companies. Is this really how we want our children to live? http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bbeb2ceab8ea1776e57a56 trooble Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:59:24 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bbeb2ceab8ea1776e57a56 Except that its reductionist approach creates an overpopulation of certain genes that couldn't survive in the wild or even under traditional hybrid culturing. And those genes will get into grasses and weeds and we will never get them out. Meanwhile, pesticides are just a prison weightlifting room for bigger and meaner pests that will eventually be paroled and move into your pool house. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bbea946da811be610082c1 trooble Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:56:52 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bbea946da811be610082c1 In Europe, you see farms that have run beautifully since Roman times. They've never salinized, they've never had their topsoil blow away, they've never been compacted by fecal pavement and disrupted by mesquite. They take care of the land, the gift of their ancient gods. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bbcdb06bb3f76550fba6a4 Joe A Tue, 08 Jul 2014 06:53:36 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bbcdb06bb3f76550fba6a4 That is right Mr Monsanto: the modern corn used as the basis for their Frankenfood experiments has been there as the result of thousands of years of conventional breeding. And their so called 'drought resistant' (or whatever resistant) corn is just a conventional drought resistant corn with some added BT toxins or genes that make them resist their RoundUp herbicide. Monsanto and ilk just biopirate conventional crops and genetically modify them claiming they created something just. But it is just infringement on Nature's copyright. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb9977ecad043a46ef3442 mytomcat Tue, 08 Jul 2014 03:10:47 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb9977ecad043a46ef3442 All these so called "solutions" require an energy input that comes from fossil fuels. The best solution I've found is in utilizing the principles of Permaculture. Permaculture takes a whole systems approach to sustainability, food production, water conservation and energy use. In the toolbox of feeding the world, genetic modification is but a toothpick. With Permaculture one can repair & rebuild the soil and increase the nutrient density of locally grown vegetables. Prevent & stop soil erosion and increase water retention while reducing water waste. Incorporate managed use of animals in a system mimicking the natural world. And with Permaculture minimize external inputs to as close to zero as possible. Google: Greening the Desert with Geoff Lawton & youtube 'Food Forest Farm' for more real solutions! http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb3f5e69bedde3398b4568 lzardo2003 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:46:22 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb3f5e69bedde3398b4568 It doens´t really matter, even if we find a way to eat our own feces there will be not enough of it if our population keeps growing... Problem is, when you simply talk to breeders that maybe it could be reasonable to think that infinite population growth in a finite planet with finite resources is perhaps unsustainable they use to take it as a personal offense... Seriously, I don´t care anymore, it´s the breeder´s child that will suffer when they all find out that their imaginary friend living on the top of the clouds is not going to save them... http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb3deb6da811f30d8b4572 Jimminey Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:40:11 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb3deb6da811f30d8b4572 I am still refusing to click on BI videos. I will not seek content in a video that isn't accompanied by a reasonably comprehensive article. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53baf97469bedd54168b456e Darren Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:48:04 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53baf97469bedd54168b456e We don't need to increase food production we need to reduce population. I don't need to be a scientist to know at some point the entire system is going to break and when it dose we and everything else risk extinction. Pollution (brown fields, ocean garbage patch), collapsing fisheries, species going extinct , we are running out water for drinking and crops, on and on. Please stop having babies.