When I first started hearing about HR 875, it was through alternative agriculture sources, and Nigerian style email messages. I started giving the concerns over it more weight as it started showing up more frequently. Reason has a very good article that not only lists some of the hype and concerns over the [...]
Archive for the ‘Food Supply’ Category
13 Mar
Cutting Back
The Wall Street Journal has a good article on the current uncertainty in agriculture. Commodity prices are falling, so farmers are cutting back and leaving fields fallow. Personally I’ve left 30% of my cropland sit out this season. But even with cheaper grains, food prices haven’t come down much, and the ethanol [...]
11 Feb
On the brink? Doubtful.
Are America and the UK on the brink of a food crisis? We are if you ask these folk, as well as these. Will it be organic, sustainable agriculture that saves us, or are some greens going to admit that there might be some benefit in GMOs after all?
John Beddington, the chief scientific [...]
