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GM crop farms filled with weeds
In sci.med.nutrition Jim Webster wrote:
"Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... 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? We are talking about a 30 year process remember. BSE had an effect on a small sector of the industry in the last decade of a 30 year period Then there is the high UK pound, if you are looking at exports. Over a 30 year period we have had strong and weak currency There are possibly follow on effects from deregulation is it? Has the weather done a big cycle or os greenhous turbulence causing trouble? Over thirty years, we have had a couple of droughts, years of almost constant rain, the weather has been pretty much average 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? over a thirty year period, damn all So what do you think has affected ups and downs of USA and UK farming incomes in the various segments of the thirty year period? [...] Only money made was by people who suddenly got big research grants. Shroud waving rules. What about corporates hoping to buy struggling farms cheaply? No evidence of that whatsoever. I suspect that if you look at the figures you will find less UK farm land in the hands of insurance companies and similar than there was thirty years ago Because they set up farming corporates to do the job. 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. Or perhaps like a protection racket where a bunch of people siphon money out of an area for their own personal use And we had Narang (i-sis member) fired from the scheme, though forwarding good ideas, it seems. |
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