“Radical New Direction Needed in Food Production to Deal with Climate Change!†says the press release. Crop yields may fall 20-30 percent by 2100 because the earth will be too warm for optimum photosynthesis, warns a February 12, 2010 “Perspectives†article in the journal Science. (“Radically Rethinking Ag for the 21st Centuryâ€).
CHURCHVILLE, VA—By 2050, 25 million more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis, says the highly respected International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. IFPRI, however, incorrectly links the prediction and the solutions, to man-made global warming. The food challenge will occur whether the warming is man-made or part of [...]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—It was 1950. World War II, with its 40 million deaths, was over. Doctors were conquering smallpox with vaccines, protecting millions from malaria and typhus with new pesticides, and treating infections with the miraculous new antibiotics.
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Then we realized that humanity was still at massive risk—from hunger. With death rates falling radically, there was [...]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Rudolph Steiner, a founder of organic farming in the 1920s, started the “great organic nitrogen swindle†that threatens the world with hunger to this day. Steiner didn’t believe in nutrients, he believed in “vital forces.â€Â He said a cow has horns to send into itself “astral-ethereal formative powers.â€Â He claimed you could fertilize a [...]
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Prince Charles of England has come out again against the genetically modified foods that are a key hope for producing the extra food needed by our richer, more populous world in the decades just ahead. He must know that, thanks to science, world grain production tripled during his lifetime, from about 700 million tons [...]
