We don’t really need most of what we buy. We’re fine just the
way we are Here are a couple of good sound bites to throw back
the next time friends, family members, or even strangers tell
you we need super-chemicals and GMOs to feed the world: -
Chemical farming isn’t “feeding the world” now. Despite more
than 70 years of chemical- and petroleum-reliant farming
practices, about 1 billion people are malnourished or starving
in today’s world. - It takes three calories of energy to create
one calorie of edible food with conventional farming. These
facts from a report from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health don’t even include the energy used in
transportation or processing. Our current system relies on
practices that actually diminish the resource base that is
needed to sustain it. - Biotech crops falter and fail without
expensive herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, and irrigation.
While enormously productive in ideal conditions, biotech crops
gobble up incredible amounts of resources to produce that