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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

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Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] Monsanto Plans to Boost Food Supply
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:09:30 -0400
From: Laura Lengnick <lengnick@WARREN-WILSON.EDU>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU


Corn, soybeans and cotton are food?  Has anybody in this policy debate
considered small-scale, local food production using biointensive
techniques as a part of the solution?  90% reduction in inputs of all
kinds, 400% increase in crop yields.  And not a penny needed to be spent
on research - Biointensive is ready to address the problem NOW.   Read
more about it at http://www.growbiointensive.org/



> Monsanto Plans to Boost Food Supply
> (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/business/worldbusiness/05crop.html?em&ex=
> 1212724800&en=13c31749831dd592&ei=5087%0A)
>
> By ANDREW POLLACK
> Published: June 5, 2008, NYTimes
> Monsanto, the leader in agricultural biotechnology, pledged Wednesday to
> develop seeds that would double the yields of corn, soybeans and cotton by
> 2030 and would require 30 percent less water, land and energy to grow. 
> The announcement, coming as world leaders are meeting in Rome to discuss
> rising food prices and growing food shortages, appears to be aimed at least
> in part at winning acceptance of genetically modified crops by showing that
> they can play a major role in feeding the world. 
> Much of what is in the commitment are things the company was doing anyway,
> though it now becomes a formal goal.