Tomorrow's Global Food System: Opportunities and Challenges (Part 2)

[faylorz]

The narrator seems to point a lot of 'problems'. He contradicts himself numerous times throughout the video and not once does he provide a solution to the problems. Terrible video which was produced only to bash american agriculture. terrible video.

ps. i would have never watched this if i was not required to for a class.

[badger19821]

@faylorz Where does the narrator contradict himself? did you see the 3rd part with the solutions?

[faylorz]

@badger19821 he contradicts himself most clearly when he talks about the use of pesticides, herbicides and GMOs. He is against the use of them and prefers we use organic farming. However, at the same time he wants us to stop producing so much cattle because it is a "waste" of grain that we could be using to feed the world. Does he expect us to be able to produce high yields with organic farming? it cannot be done. we will not be able to feed the world with organic farming.

[faylorz]

@badger19821 we produce the high yields that we do because we have round up ready corn, powerful herbicides that eliminate noxious weeds. Cultivation as a means of controlling weeds is another problem. He claims we are seeing global warming. Well how does he thinks we will control the weeds? We will have to control them with cultivation which on a large scale means we need to use smoke belching diesel tractors further increasing the global warming problem.

[faylorz]

@badger19821 He expects to have his cake and eat it too but in reality we need these modern ways of farming. It is a fact that without artificially fixed nitrogen we could not feed ourselves.