Reported Post by KerokeroCola

KerokeroCola · Nov 24, 2010

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Post: Genetically Modified Foods/Organisms
Forum: Something for All
Assigned Moderators: Clashfan, MegaMatt, Angelmax, FireZ, Karl

Posted by: SexayMistahBee
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KerokeroCola said: ↑

These posts are severely lacking insight of economics. Your first post is intimating that, by definition, a profit-driven organization is not interested in the safety of its customers. It's very crude to assert this. Profit-incentive does not necessitate exploitation; the majority of companies in any free market earn their profits by honest business rather than exploitation. Citing a potential outcome in the past is also ridiculous. Arthur Gary Bishop murdered five children in 1988, but does that give me any reason to suspect you of murdering anybody? This example--and yours--is a "Hasty Generalization". See http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/hasty-generalisation/.

Your second post mentioned the non-scarcity of foods in this world. This is also economically ignorant. In fact, economics is often described as the study of scarcity. It says that there is always a finite amount of resource. To look at the United States only is a very gross simplification. We only have about 5% of the world's population.

Your second post also mentioned the hoarding of rice in warehouses in South Korea. Whoever gave you this information was a pretty shoddy investigator. We're hoarding rice, wheat, etc everywhere in the world, not just in Korea. It's been going on for nearly a century. Why do we do it? ECONOMICS. The value of most major currencies in the world is dropping (especially the US dollar), so people are investing in a different "currency"--FOOD (called speculating in commodities--see this non-wikipedia citation.) This drives up the price of food, increasing their investment value.

You also mentioned how the third-world "starving" countries cannot grow crops, yet they are located near the equator. I can agree that lacking governments, civil sytems, economies, etc. are the cause of this, though I disagree on your conclusion that "Well, that's that." If something's going wrong and the easy solution isn't really so easy, should we just give up? Why can't we indirectly help by producing more-efficient crops that have little-to-no evidence against them?

Do you really think we're in a good enough economic state right now that we can just "leave well enough alone"?
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Let's all give a round of applause for KerokeroCola. Seems like he disagrees with what I have said, and has good reasons why we should be proposing GE foods, along with why they will help out with world poverty!
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Karl · Nov 24, 2010

Done, Thanks.

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