I've decided to put this blog on hold for a while. Other things need attention right now, and, while I've had a good number of page views for the amount of time that this blog has been online, I'm not really getting comments and email messages asking questions or wanting to discuss a particular subject more.
I will continue to check the email account that is attached to this blog ( nutrigenomicsandhumannutrition@gmail.com ), and if I hear from some of you, perhaps we will get it going again.
In case you don't know yet, the basis of this blog is Dr. Ray Kurzweil's prediction for the future of human nutrition and how reality is playing out in relation to the prediction. If you haven't read the prediction yet then scroll down to the Feb 1, 2012 posts and take a look.
According to Population Reference Bureau ( www.prb.org/Educators/TeachersGuides/HumanPopulation/PopulationGrowth.aspx ) the world today is made up of 1billion people in the developed countries (North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) and 6 billion in the less developed countries including Asia and Africa. They also say that the population in the developed countries will remain at 1 billion all the way to 2050 when the total is expected to reach 9 billion. Therefore, all of the increase from 7 billion to 9 billion will be in the less developed countries where most of the hunger and starvation is today.
Because of this I have to believe that something along the lines of Dr. Kurzweil's prediction will happen as entrepreneurs take their high-tech solutions to the people who need it the most. From there it will spread to the rest of the world because of nutrition costs and competition in the world.
Because of this totally new paradigm I believe that traditional ag's days are numbered. China can't keep up with food demands today because of increasing population, and it will only get worse. There is no way traditional ag can keep up, especially with the current free enterprise, profit-oriented system (necessary in the current paradigm). Agriculture has never been challenged by the kind of paradigm that is rapidly developing today (computers, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, medical science, nutrigenomics, etc.).
I believe that most of today's ag producers and supporters will follow the herd off the cliff and never know what drove them to do that because they have no interest in what is happening outside of their property and association. It's business as usual if you can believe the social media, and I believe you can.
So, where do you fit in the picture? What do you think about my comments? I'll be watching to see if you wish to have your views known.
Ray Stanford
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