NEW ALTERNATIVES AND SCIENTIFIC SENSE
ADV. BINI SAROJ
Modern medicine, vaccinations and developed methods of modern
agriculture has been contributing significally to the advancement of
mankind in the field of disease diagnosis, Disease prevention, food
safety etc. Unfortunately current trend is to completely refute them.
Even though the argument against science is raised in all walks of life
but it is more common and organized against modern agriculture.
Till 19 th century we followed the traditional farming methods. But the
rate of increase of population is such a way to affect the carrying
capacity of earth which forced the human kind to leave the
traditional methods of farming & agriculture. The modern or scientific
agriculture is evolved to meet that horrible situation. The use of
science in Agriculture and farming helped to eradicate the poverty
and starve to death. Now there is a demand from some sectors to
negate this modern scientific farming method which is based on non-
scientific &unreasoned arguments. One of the arguments raised and
spread by them is that thee food items produced through the modern
farming is one reason for the disease of cancer. But they are silent on
the proved reasons of cancer such as smoking, consumption of
alcohol, life style, pollution etc.
Friends of Scientifica, October 2016