Blog entry #7

The Norman Borlaug article went into detail of using science to help improve our crops. This is the kind of ideal I believe in when it comes to the future of mankind’s food. The idea of having organic food and natural foods that are pure and delicious is a nice…idea, but not completely realistic. The video we had watched in class said that only a fraction of the people on earth could be sustained by organic ‘old school’ farming techniques and that just isn’t good enough. Science is the difference in the ability for us all to live comfortably.
To further increase his argument, he confronts the ‘naysayers’ we have been discussing in class. To call the scientists supporters of antiscience, is to discredit and demean their argument against him. Then following that he credits them to helping the overall quality of food from the environmentalist movements. It seems nonproductive that the people who oppose the ideals of agricultural science only appear to talk about the problems and not the solutions given in this article.

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For the article of our choice, I have decided that the Kellogg’s text provided could actually be useful for my argument. Although, this will not directly be for my side of problem. I am planning to write about how I am with the ideals of agricultural science and its goal to produce a greater food. My plan for this article is for its extreme view on what companies can do to “own” something. I will use it to address this issue as a naysayer topic and compare it with the overall idea of agriculture and science.
As ridiculous as this article seems, the company, Kellogg’s, is a credited group with “128 billion bowls of Kellogg's Corn Flakes are eaten worldwide every year”(Kellogg’s article). This works nicely for using an ethos approach to the argument.

Daily Mail Reporter. “Kellogg's will use laser to burn logo on to individual corn flakes to stamp out fakes.” Mail Online. 13 October 2009. Web. 9 March 2010. .