Let Them Eat Bugs

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 09:00 in Mathematics & Economics

There are some places where food is easy to grow and some where it is not. Nature is not fair.Expecting companies in countries with food to ship it everywhere for free is not practical and the poorest people don't have the money to import food, so they are stuck in a hunger Catch-22. There are differing schools of thought on how to solve the problem.The positive approach - science - is to make it possible for food to grow in areas where food cannot grow now. Plants can be optimized scientifically to thrive in areas where they ordinarily would not. Then there is a less positive approach; tell poor people to eat bugs. read more

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