So, “Top chefs say no to GM food” eh?

Well it’s all very well to bitch about GM crops when you’re that fucking rich, isn’t it? Sure, if you charging 50 bucks a plate then you can afford to buy the best and freshest organic produce, but spare a thought for those in the world for whom 50 bucks is a year’s wage; or hell, all those single income families in Australia which make less than $20,000 a year. I bet they’re not looking at much more than the price tag.

This kind of mindless knee-jerk protest crap really drives me insane. How can a bunch of people who should be experts on food not see through the whole GM scare-mongering led by those not-quite-all-about-the-environment Greenpeace hippie freaks? We have, for centuries, been genetically engineering food, even before we knew about this “genome” business. By selectively breeding certain traits we have been creating, and destroying, different lines of animals and plants for human consumption. As more and more mouths need to be fed, people have been figuring out ways to increase yields to feed those people — up until some braindead automatrons decided not to bother researching anything and start spreading crap about putting monkey genes in apples blah blah blah. So now when Australia goes into drought, it has a tangible effect around the world… which may not have happened if we had invested in creating new strands of rice that is more disease resistant and has a higher yield. So, repeat after me: ORGANIC FARMING KILLS. Not those who eat it, but those who can’t afford it.

So please, Neil Perry et al, unless you can think of a way to feed 5 billion mouths and counting without new growing technologies, sit down and shut the hell up.

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