107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs

[Humanist_Activist]

16. The issue is that GMOs can be environmentally friendly, and seed saving counterproductive...

rather than lament the time when oxen driven plows, plowed the fields, we need to focus on using technology to minimize inputs(use of pesticides and fertilizers, labor and machinery) while maximizing outputs(yields). This is where, for example, organic farming fails, due to the nature of said farming practices, they produce a lot less food per acre than more conventional methods, while also relying on more labor intensive or even chemically intensive methods to control pests and weeds. Sometimes even opting for more toxic pesticides than those that aren't approved for organic farming like Copper Sulfate.

The thing is this idea of "balance" is a complete and utter fiction, farming is the most environmentally destructive act humans have every done, and, for once, we might actually be able to reduce the need for so much land. Instead we have people claim they want to be "one with nature" by buying organic produce that was produced using practices that are, overall, more environmentally destructive than conventional methods. Its getting ridiculous.