Your Questions About Green Living

The Expert answers:

No as currently all the GMO crops are dependent on an unsustainable petrol based farming structure and few to none have lived up to the hype of better yields, more nutritious crops, less crop disease, etc.. Not to mention traits such as drought resistance are still in the planning stages and now we have “super weeds” so that the glysophate/glysophyte resistant crops are becoming useless and now they are designing GMO crops to be resistant to more powerful herbicides such as 2,4-D (and using herbicides is not exactly sustainable)

And since Organic and nonBiotech conventional crops tend to yield better than GMO crops i don’t see how they are sustainable at all.

Oh and take a look at this article on just how devastating RoundUp herbicide is to soil and crops http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/664

We already produce 2x more calories per person world wide and pretty much all famine these days is caused by geo-political reasons such as war and corrupt gov’t stealing food from their people.

What we need are more regionalized and localized food systems instead of these big global systems that are huge but amazing delicate and when they fail billions suffer. And since GMO’s are a big part of the global food system and global systems are never ever as sustainable as smaller much more localized system I have to say NO.

The Expert answers:

Today’s food supply chain consists much more of goods in transit than in the past with everything being delivered only just in time. This is extremely worrying given that we are no longer capable of feeding our 60M+ population. Without imports we would be lucky to supply 24M.

A truly sustainable food supply chain depends upon making use of crops and farm animals that can actually live and grow here without importing fertilizers and animal feeds. Milk and meat from grass eating animals, wheat to make bread etc. Then we need a delivery network that doesn’t waste resources transporting food grown in the SW to the Midlands for processing and then back to the SW to be sold to the consumer etc. A sustainable food supply would be very expensive and locally based.

You have a very big subject here.

The Expert answers:

If you knew there would be no way you would eat it.

The Expert answers:

The only unsustainable resource used in production of food is fuel for tractors and other machinery.
It can be replaced with biofuel or hydrogen (made using non-fossil electricity)

The Expert answers:

Less people