Science; it can even redeem an environmental extremist

[Neferti]

What are you saying? That we should not eat red meat or bread?

[Super Nova]

What are you saying? That we should not eat red meat or bread?

Grain feed cattle was introduced for export in the 1980s. Now a lot of the cattle are feed this way. Free range..... way to go.

More grain for export then.

No I am not saying that.....

[AiA in Atlanta]

Grain-fed beef is best avoided. Eat grass-fed instead.

[AiA in Atlanta]

NIcholas Nassim Taleb, a thinker I much admire posted this today. Not sure how it will take out of context"

Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs. Top-down modifications to the system (through GMOs) are categorically and statistically different from bottom up ones (regular farming, progressive tinkering with crops, etc.) To borrow from Rupert Read, there is no comparison between the tinkering of selective breeding and the top-down engineering of taking a gene from a fish and putting it into a tomato. Saying that such a product is natural misses the statistical process by which things become “natural”.

What people miss is that the modification of crops impacts everyone and exports the error from the local to the global. I do not wish to pay —or have my descendants pay — for errors by executives of Monsanto. We should exert the precautionary principle there —our non-naive version — simply because we would discover errors after considerable damage.

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