Don't you ever say that farmers are dumb.

[karlsnooks]

Now here is an interesting example of appplied technology:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d...-dairy-cows-send-texts-when-they-are-in-heat/

 

[Corrine]

The hills may soon be alive with the sound of ringing ruminants.

 

[AceInfinity]

Personally, if we can't enforce some kind of population control in the world, by the time we get to a food shortage, I think farmers will go out of work. There'll be no need for them, because who knows if we'll have to resort to some kind of cloning, for genetically modified food to keep up with the demand? Scary thought... But plausible. Because seasons only come at certain times of the year in which we're able to grown and plan for the replenishment for the stock of the food we see in grocery stores.

The only thing with that I believe, is that i've heard food value goes down from tests they've done with GM food, and cloning. So how do we keep that?

Before this ever happens though, i'd say water shortages will happen first. Possibly in our lifetime.

 

[jcgriff2]

Maybe the inventors of Splenda can create Texas black angus beef in a lab.

 

[Cayden]

Personally, if we can't enforce some kind of population control in the world, by the time we get to a food shortage, I think farmers will go out of work. There'll be no need for them, because who knows if we'll have to resort to some kind of cloning, for genetically modified food to keep up with the demand? Scary thought... But plausible. Because seasons only come at certain times of the year in which we're able to grown and plan for the replenishment for the stock of the food we see in grocery stores.

The only thing with that I believe, is that i've heard food value goes down from tests they've done with GM food, and cloning. So how do we keep that?

Before this ever happens though, i'd say water shortages will happen first. Possibly in our lifetime.

We'll never have food shortages if two issues get solved:

1) We stop the monolithic wasteful lifestyles we have at least related to food. I've explained this much greater in another forum but I'll just summarize here; When you go into a grocery store or super market, what you see there is everything that was shipped on that day and that will be sold on that day, not one item is to be carried to the next day or thrown out.

2) We stop the idiotic and catastrophic perversion of our fertile landscapes with utter crap like ethanol and other comparatively useless yields.

 

[AceInfinity]

Personally, if we can't enforce some kind of population control in the world, by the time we get to a food shortage, I think farmers will go out of work. There'll be no need for them, because who knows if we'll have to resort to some kind of cloning, for genetically modified food to keep up with the demand? Scary thought... But plausible. Because seasons only come at certain times of the year in which we're able to grown and plan for the replenishment for the stock of the food we see in grocery stores.

The only thing with that I believe, is that i've heard food value goes down from tests they've done with GM food, and cloning. So how do we keep that?

Before this ever happens though, i'd say water shortages will happen first. Possibly in our lifetime.

We'll never have food shortages if two issues get solved:

1) We stop the monolithic wasteful lifestyles we have at least related to food. I've explained this much greater in another forum but I'll just summarize here; When you go into a grocery store or super market, what you see there is everything that was shipped on that day and that will be sold on that day, not one item is to be carried to the next day or thrown out.

2) We stop the idiotic and catastrophic perversion of our fertile landscapes with utter crap like ethanol and other comparatively useless yields.

Here's in an ideal world though... But I agree... 100% (because your points are true, sadly, and it's a disgraceful thing in my opinion that they are true). It's hard to be optimistic though with the way our world currently runs though. Even if we did have food, it's also down to distribution; world trade. Africa isn't getting much, because we'd rather see our fridges full ourselves. They can't buy from us, and none of the "fat cats" (Tommy Douglas phrase) can do a good deed.

Good points though Cayden!