TWC Session 7

For TWC session 7, we continued our discussion about BioBusiness Revolution. This time we mainly focused on Agriculture and the Environment, how BioBusiness has impacted the society in the aspects of agriculture and the environment. We touched on matters such as waste management, plant biotechnology and Agri-biology. 

One of the perspective of Agri-biology is the transformation of traditional farmers to what they call "farmist". The concept is to educate farmers to the extent that they are specialized. Gone were the days when farmers where termed by growing crops on lands and harvesting them. Present day "farmist" are farmers that use up to date technologies to increase productivity. Methods such as hydroponics and aerophonics are examples that famers used. Technology enables us to increase productivity of food, shorten the growth cycles of crops, hence allowing more food to be produced from the same amount of land. Hopefully in the near future, technology will have advanced to the extend that the cost of food prices will drop to enable food to be catered all around the world, even the poorer nations.

Another question that Prof posed today was "Genetically Modified Food or not?. I feel that Prof made a good point in arguing for GM food. There should not be protests against it if these food provides better nutrients and allow frequent supply of quality food. The only difference is that food nowadays can be done in a laboratory, crossing genetic properties to come out up the desired product. Back in the past, plants were also genetically modified by cross breeding! just that it was done slower and more "traditional" methods.

“There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s greed.” 
I feel that if everyone lives by this, there will never be famine.

7/10!