We've got Aussie farmer and writer John Gladigau here for two weeks of writing.
A Starbucks conversation revealed how the world's most productive farmland is turning into housing tracks and biodeisal plots. People who used to be able to buy tacos from the lot next door can't afford their corn anymore. Long term, what will it mean?
It occurs to me that the genetic engineers who are designing biodeisal at a 10-1 ratio over drought resistant grain crops may need more than market pressure to stave off a huge hunger crisis 10 - 20 years down the road.
Will anyone ever stand up and say, "For God sakes, engineer the green to feed the machines, but the grain to feed the stomachs in the next generation plants?"
For God sakes.
And for ours.
