Malthusian theory indicates the exponential growth of the global population will exceed the production of agriculture, thus influencing legislative and technological innovation, in order to frame the profit-seeking motiving through a humanitarian lense to gain support. Technology has the potential to become very useful to address issues such as food insecurity and malnutrition, but has been dominated by a motive of promoting efficiency and profit. The rise of the green revolution brought about perpetuating capitalism , through industrialized everything around the farm in order to strip power away from consumers, and to allow corporations to control . Unlike the green revolution, the rise of biotech industry is consumer , and is not only able to mass produce, but it’s able to fully capture the natural process of food production to resist complications for maximum efficiency.
Technology innovation in agriculture is not new, and was something on the rise in the mid-1800’s with the passage of the Morrill Act, which establish Land Grant-Universities in order to promote research and to normalize agricultural production through a means of technological advancement. This gave way for the rise of capitalism to transform …show more content…
With the rise of global capitalism, the revolving door paved the way for “A 1980 Supreme Court Decision, Diamond V. Chakrabarty, allowing full patent protections on GE organisms, and soon after, in 1982 the chemical firm Monsanto entered the seed business” (Howard 108). This justifies the idea of policy supporting the corporatization of food production, rather than implementing services and a means to address global and domestic food issues. This court case permitted corporations to capitalize on the technological advantage to produce seeds and products in a lab, in order to control the outcome and maximize
Technology innovation in agriculture is not new, and was something on the rise in the mid-1800’s with the passage of the Morrill Act, which establish Land Grant-Universities in order to promote research and to normalize agricultural production through a means of technological advancement. This gave way for the rise of capitalism to transform …show more content…
With the rise of global capitalism, the revolving door paved the way for “A 1980 Supreme Court Decision, Diamond V. Chakrabarty, allowing full patent protections on GE organisms, and soon after, in 1982 the chemical firm Monsanto entered the seed business” (Howard 108). This justifies the idea of policy supporting the corporatization of food production, rather than implementing services and a means to address global and domestic food issues. This court case permitted corporations to capitalize on the technological advantage to produce seeds and products in a lab, in order to control the outcome and maximize