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29 Dec 2005 04:31:04 PM |
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Ears of plenty |
Ears of plenty
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323362&no_na_tran=1
Dec 20th 2005
From The Economist print edition
The story of man's staple food
IN 10,000 years, the earth's population has doubled ten times, from
less than 10m to more than six billion now and ten billion soon. Most
of the calories that made that increase possible have come from three
plants: maize, rice and wheat. The oldest, most widespread and until
recently biggest of the three crops is wheat (see chart). To a first
approximation wheat is the staple food of mankind, and its history is
that of humanity.
Yet today, wheat is losing its crown. The tonnage (though not the
acreage) of maize harvested in the world began consistently to exceed
that of wheat for the first time in 1998; rice followed suit in 1999.
Genetic modification, which has transformed maize, rice and soyabeans,
has largely passed wheat by-to such an extent that it is in danger of
becoming an "orphan crop". The Atkins diet and a fashion for gluten
allergies have made wheat seem less wholesome. And with population
growth rates falling sharply while yields continue to rise, even the
acreage devoted to wheat may now begin to decline for the first time
since the stone age.
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| Title: Re: Ears of plenty |
29 Dec 2005 10:11:41 PM |
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maff wrote:
Ears of plenty
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323362&no_na_tran=1
The Atkins diet and a fashion for gluten
allergies have made wheat seem less wholesome. And with population
growth rates falling sharply while yields continue to rise, even the
acreage devoted to wheat may now begin to decline for the first time
since the stone age.
*Thus spake God's Creator*
We hope so, or the world will be populated
by creatures that look like BIG fat frogs...
laying on their sofa's watching Sit-Coms and
football games while talking on their cell phones. :-(
God's Creator!
( *Sorry, I don't forgive ****** )
:-)
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