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GM crop farms filled with weeds
Jim Webster wrote:
Did or did not BSE culling cause a reduction of some percent in demand for UK wheat? No, because the number of dairy cows did not change noticeably, and the number of their offspring didn't chance much. Remember that due to weather the UK grain harvest can vary between 11 and 16 million tonnes anyway, so a change in usage of a few thousand tonnes is not going to have any meaningful effect on price. So what percentage of the lower returns for UK farmers is explained by BSE? Then there is the high UK pound, if you are looking at exports. There are possibly follow on effects from deregulation is it? Has the weather done a big cycle or os greenhous turbulence causing trouble? Now how much of that sort of thing has been happening in USA to form the loss picture for farmers there? And how much can be put down to GM troubles - extra seed costs and extra herbicide, also needed when the weeds which Roundup is not so strong on start to advance? [...] Only money made was by people who suddenly got big research grants. Shroud waving rules. What about corporates hoping to buy struggling farms cheaply? We spent £4 billion a year and yet current predictions are that there will be less than a couple of hundred dead. If we had spent this money on kidney treatment or even maternity, we would have saved tens of thousands of lives. Yes, though I suppose that was a known quantity. The BSE money was like insurance, rather expensive over the years, and some never claim, and could have replaced their belongings with the amount they pay over 50 years. |
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