Learn2read: contributor =/= sole cause.

There are a lot of ways to do small-scale farming.

Bread is actually only about 3000-4000 years old. But I agree on the rest, some of the food we've been growing forever is absolutely horrible for sustaining humanity, like manioc, which was actually abandoned for thousands of years in many places. The plant produces mostly empty calories.

Awesome, the food chain is in the hands of moustache twirling cartoon villains :/

a) No, it's fundamental science
b) so that makes what we're doing now tolerable how?
kri moar

Many of the starving african nations are there because food aid completely fucks up local agriculture and leads to their agro industry only being used for exports to fatten up eurasians and americans.

A - Engineering does fuck all without research. And Mendel still did nothing of the sort you suggest he did.
B - I'm complaining about the abuses of it. Not the system itself.

Funny how you mention diamonds, as in that case, too, they're under the control of a huge megacorporation who basically owns governments. Governments, dictators and corporations are to blame. The last one is important.

If they were not sterile Monsanto would remain villains because they've shown what happens when pollinization happens: "OMG OUR IP" and sue the already half broke farmers of the region.

But what does this have to do with soy millk?

I'm also aware that most of soy products are GM, I mostly buy Almond milk however. Not to say I don't use soy, I use it a lot, thanks to being used to the cooking we do on the asian side of the family.

Corporations are just another form of government, anyway.

The world is starving, and Monsanto is a huge contributor to it thanks to having a monopoly on their seeds, while roundup kills pretty much everything else, and of course their "license agreement" doesn't allow stocking seeds for the next year, and has led to farmers getting sued to ruin for having their field pollinized by GM crops. Fuck off shill.

How will a company that makes people rebuy seeds every year, makes a pesticide that kills everything else, and sues the pants off farmers whose fields get pollinized by the monsanto seeds help feed starving people who can't afford that shit anyway?

There is a huge difference between ten thousand years and ten thousand hours; for one, in these ten thousand years, we had a lot of time to do trial and error and figure out what was a bad idea or not. Some of the earliest plants cultivated had horrible effects on the health of people because they're basically empty calories, and only appeared widespread in a few small regions before mostly disappearing. At least until the 20th century.

That and let's face it, at the level of awareness we're at, most species' genomes are pretty fucking close.