Next Agricultural Revolution Is Underway

Posted: 12/28/2018

This time, the agricultural revolution is happening at several fronts and it is very high tech:

1. Genetically modified crops to increase yields & resistance etc.
2. Growing plants is going indoors (modern, computerized, climate controlled green/hot houses) and vertical using LED lights

None of this is very new. It has been going on for decades, but at a rather smaller scale and located in few geographic locations (e.g. Netherlands, Israel). It appears, we are entering or we have already entered a phase were these two factors will be more combined and are ready to be applied to large scale agricultural production worldwide.

This could dramatically change the landscape of agriculture (no pun intended) as we know it. The benefits could be tremendous: It promises e.g. a lot less resources consumption (land, water, chemicals, pesticides etc.).

And this may only be an intermediate step when humans are ready to have bacteria produce any food we like.

Sources:

1. Das perfekte Gewächshaus (6/8/2018)
2. Growing the future High-tech farmers are using LED lights in ways that seem to border on science fiction (11/6/2018)

Europe Is In Love With Backwardedness

Monsanto Company Pulls Out

At least one company has the guts!

Today (5/31/2013), the highly educated Luddites of Europe were probably triumphant when Monsanto announced to leave the European market with its genetically modified crops (read here (German language), here).

European Navel Gazing & Risk Aversion

These European worry warts are aiding and abeting in slowing down a revolution in human progress like never seen before. Nobody would argue to put safeguards in place, but the European notion of precautionary principle (read here) and other dubious, environmental concerns are not much but academic superstition or sophistry.