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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 11:27 AM
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16. That only makes a difference if you can shift the food preferences of the population.
Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 11:43 AM by GliderGuider
So long as the consumption patterns remain relatively constant my analysis holds. I believe that food preferences are largely cultural, and are resistant to significant change over periods much shorter than decades.

Right now global food preferences are indeed slowly shifting, but in all the wrong directions. That actually makes the problem worse than my analysis indicates.
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  - At first glance that's true. However,  GliderGuider   Apr-14-09 09:54 AM   #8 
  - There is so much bad agricultural economics math in there, one doesn't know where to start!  HamdenRice   Apr-15-09 08:44 AM   #12 
     - You and I disagree fundamentally on this topic.  GliderGuider   Apr-15-09 09:46 AM   #13 
        - No we fundamentally disagree on broader topics. This is a discrete factual question.  HamdenRice   Apr-15-09 10:35 AM   #14 
           - That only makes a difference if you can shift the food preferences of the population.  GliderGuider   Apr-15-09 11:27 AM   #16 
              - One factual point at a time. Can we now agree to the following:  HamdenRice   Apr-15-09 12:18 PM   #17 
                 - You're one for two.  GliderGuider   Apr-15-09 01:05 PM   #18 
                    - So by that logic, there is no malnutrition in Africa  HamdenRice   Apr-15-09 01:26 PM   #19 
                       - You deeply misunderstand my position.  GliderGuider   Apr-15-09 01:50 PM   #20 
                          - No, the problem is I deeply understand your position, and it's just plain wrong  HamdenRice   Apr-16-09 08:36 AM   #21 
                             - Well, there we are.  GliderGuider   Apr-16-09 09:24 AM   #22 
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