Bill Gates Pushing to Transform Natural Bananas into GMO Frankenfood | NewsTarget
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You are conflating different issues on one.
Hang on, so I provide a list solutions that doesn't require interventions from billionaires that may have malicious intentions and now I'm 'conflating different issues', so this is what it feels like when judges say you have no standing so suck it up.
If you're a die hard, support GMO no matter what, go ahead but if you will deny any other solutions to food shortages other than GMO then we are at an impass.
Because population rise, and no all farms are apt for produce. Plus even Bill gates owning a lot of farms, there are still more normal people owning farms. Normal farmers are also struggling with costs, and gmos help them. It also cuts costs in not requiring more people working on maintaining the crops. Like organic where one needs to keep spraying pesticides over and over since the pesticides are innediccient.
The costs can be cut by better automation, there's ways to farm without requiring pesticides, a lot of the farmland being bought is not to continue food production but to 'lower emissions'. Population rise can only be solved with more investment in space colonisation since that is the best source of future resources, habitation and technology but only one billionaire is actively investing in that.
We have plenty of land that can be farmed but gross mismanagement actually stopped that happening like the case with Zimbabwe
Unfortunately the no pesticides part you mention only works on small scale and doesn't work on larger scale. Automation helps but it is a higher cost alternative while gmos are low cost.
For instance you can't have a massive corn plantation on very hilly regions, tractors would struggle to harvest it. So no, not all land is optimal for farming.