economy

It’s a widely accepted fact that the Earth only has a limited amount of oil reserves, and that they are running out relatively quickly. While nobody really knows when they will expire, you can be sure that unless we are prepared for when it happens, they’ll be some tough times ahead. It’s obvious we need some kind of alternative energy. Unfortunately, with what we’ve developed so far, if oil were to run out tomorrow, the world would be plunged into chaos.

Farming has been around for a long time, ten thousand years according to many experts. And ever since the first humans learned how to plant and harvest crops, they’ve steadily been improvements over the years. These improvements helped them to get more food out the same piece of land. And as the world’s population has grown, farming has helped out by continuously increasing the capacity of a finite piece of land. The latest technological developments in farming include genetic engineering, which promises to not only increase the amount of food grown, but to increase it’s nutritional value as well. But is this a good thing? In this article I’ll go over the advantages and disadvantages, so that you can decide for yourself.