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> that can dramatically improve how much crop food we save from damage

We already have tons and tons of food rotting in storage all the time. Lack of food is not a problem in the western world. It is not a useful argument.

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Very true on the first point. distribution, allocation and use problems with existing food production for all sorts of reasons (political, economic etc) are the much more immediate issue but as to your second point, the above doesn't disqualify the usefulness of even better crop yields or a need to give the technologies behind them a nuanced defense.These things are a long term investment in human development, and they always have been.

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