Feeding the world will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. It will be impossible without using scientific advancements and biotechnology.
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To affordably feed the next billion people, we must have higher-yielding crops with even greater nutritional value. America should be at the vanguard of the innovative advances that will make this happen.
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.
Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.
Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.
We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.
It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.
Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.
Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.