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  There was someone on R4 talking about the positives of all this, but not sounding terribly convincing. He talked of the world food shortage in terms of individuals abndoning farming because their returns are low, in other words people are giving up producing food because they cant make much of a living doing it...hence the shortage.
  
  If some of these increased prices filter through to these farmers, said the talking head, then food levels will be sustained and there wont be a shortage and there wont be rising prices.
  
  But thats not a terribly convincing argument..money will always fail to filter down to the grass roots. Its the way of things.
  
  There is no doubt that eventually we will have to go the route of genetically engineered crops.

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