Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak speaking at the Long Now Foundation’s seminars about long-term thinking.
The cost of gene sequencing and engineering is dropping rapidly (toward $70 a genome), and our knowledge about how food crops function genetically is growing just as rapidly. That accelerating capability offers a path toward truly sustainable agriculture on a global scale.
http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/jul/28/organically-grown-genetically-engineered-food-future/
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The benefit of a reformed food system, besides better food, better environment and less climate shock, is better health and the savings of trillions of dollars. Four out of five chronic diseases are diet-related. Three quarters of medical spending goes to preventable chronic disease. Pollan says we cannot have a healthy population, without a healthy diet. The news is that we are learning that we cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture. And right now, farming is sick…
http://blog.longnow.org/2009/05/06/michael-pollan-deep-agriculture/
In a open letter to the next president, author Michael Pollan writes about the waning health of America’s food systems — and warns that "the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close."
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