Re: Feeding the World

Posted by oldtanker on August 18, 2018 at 19:50:12 from (66.228.255.59):

In Reply to: Feeding the World posted by Traditional Farmer on August 17, 2018 at 18:21:59:

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Jon look it up. There is over 18 million acres for farmland idle in the US this year. That doesn't count land owned by local, state or the federal government that can be farmed.

And much of the middle east with irrigation can produce too. Jungle areas can make good crop land too.

I'm not saying to do away with GMO or Roundup. Just that all these claims are not true and the world still has way more than enough land to feed itself for the foreseeable future. Will it feed itself is another question. Farmers in general are not going to farm for free. They want paid for crops. So poor nations are not going to be able to afford to buy that food.

But look at the reality of it. All this fuss about GMO's. Hybrids are what allowed corn to hit the 200 BPA benchmark here. Not GMO's. (GMO being a modification that could never occur naturally. Cross pollination to achieve desirable traits could conceivably occur naturally but are generally controlled or happen in a controlled environment). So GMO's really only account for what? Maybe 10%?

Now here is the math. About 40% or corn grown is made into ethanol. That's a lot of crop land that could be used to raise edible crops. And about 1/2 of the bean crop goes directly to China with a lot more being converted into bio. Again more land that has been diverted from edible crops. Heck we import over 400 million gallons of bio fuels a year.

So what the real deal is is that if there was a world food crisis governments around the world would stop making fuel out of crops and farmers would have to grow edible food to feed the worlds population.

Now look at this another way too. It really helps to try to see things from other people's perspective. Most GMO crops don't go to feed anyone. They are made into fuel that a lot of people don't what to burn. Most corn goes into ethanol and animal feed. Very little is consumed. Most people eat little if any soy product. And most goes to fuel and animal feed. So eliminate the fuel. That land can now be used for other things. Crops to feed animals, edible crops......

According to one thing I read and you as a trucker should be interested. About $1.30 per gallon of 20% bio diesel is the cost of the fuel made from soybeans. They said that bean fuel cost the american consumer about 5.4 billion dollars a year extra!

Rick

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