This cattle raising bozo informs us he hasn’t met a chemical that he doesn’t love and to shut up, open our mouths while he force feeds us to consume those shitty GMOs…
 
Keep trying to stop progress you anti-biotech fanatics. It won’t work! Those of us who support biotech and believe in its ability to improve the world in which we live are going to win.
 
The increase in biotechnology crops planted from 1996 through 2009 was simply amazing. It was an 80 times increase. In 2009, 14 million farmers in 25 countries planted 330 million acres of biotech crops, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA). The 2009 acreage was a 7 percent increase (22 million acres) from 2008.
 
Of all the soybeans grown in the world as of 2009, three-quarters were biotech; half of the cotton was biotech; one-quarter of the corn was biotech, and one-fifth of the canola was biotech. Of the various traits of genetically modified crops (GMO), herbicide tolerance was a trait in 62 percent of the crops planted, according to ISAAA. It was also noted that 21 percent of the biotech crops included “stacked traits,” or more than a single trait.
 
Two more large-acreage crops will soon be showing up with dramatic percentages of biotech production. They are rice and wheat. From what I’ve seen and heard, the doors are going to swing wide open for both crops to become globally traded biotech crops. It will be a situation like U.S. sugar beets that were replaced with biotech varieties within a couple years of their introduction, or even prior to all processes being completed for regulatory approval, as activists have claimed in court.
 
The United States dramatically leads the world in biotech crop production compared to other countries. But increases in all countries who have planted at least two million hectares is occurring rapidly from year to year.
 
In million hectares of biotech crop production, the U.S. compared to other countries for 2009 was as follows: U.S.-64.0, Brazil-21.4, Argentina-21.3, India-8.4, Canada-8.2, China-3.7, Paraguay-2.2, South Africa-2.1.
 
It has been noted that Brazil and Argentina are fighting it out for second place, but the anticipation is that China will step production up quite quickly when its government establishes an official doctrine of using biotech to feed its millions of people and exporting crops to the rest of the world.