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I was just reading the free newspaper that is given out when you take a train in Melbourne Central and came upon this interesting article. Its regarding China finding a new way to grow/cultivate large specimens in greenhouses which is possibly the answer to the world's food crisis.

In case of those who do not know, there is a food crisis or i would say a food shortage/food production in the world now. One of the effects are the sharp increase in ingredients such as flour resulting in many grumpy people like me during Chinese New Year due to the ridiculous prices for cakes, ba gua and other stuff. Hong Baos however stayed the same.

According to the article, China grew freaking 9.5kg tomatoes, 22.5cm chillies, 95kg pumpkins and so forth! All of this was done simply by sending the seeds into space for 2 weeks. I find it incredible if u ask me, there are even 60cm cucumbers and 6.3kg eggplants!

Strangely, western scientist are sceptical, NASA (a famous space company) said benefits do not weigh out the cost and something or perhaps some company called "Dupont" ruled out sending seeds into space. Now if you ask me, the western world has something against China or i would rather say Asians. They are just jealous that some other people (whom many of them think are inferior due to some racist theory called social darwinism) whom are not "Whites" perhaps found the answer that they have been searching for all this time. Its a breakthrough if you ask me, if they are so sceptical, why not send some scientist down and investigate rather than to sit on their big fat asses proclaiming that it is impossible.

I remembered reading in a book how Western scientist proclaimed some plant species that are supposedly extinct since the Jurassic period are actually found in Africa now. There is even a fish which i forgot the name found in the Indian ocean that is again supposed to be extinct but again proved to alive and existing. Its not like the western scientist have all the answers to questions and its also not like they have all the rights and privileges to answer them only. Its just that some "dumb" asians got the answers first thus resulting them sulking that we do not have the answers.

Well NASA says benefits does not justify the cost, we can send in bulk u idoits! We are talking about people's lives here, is money more important than lives? Also, the cost for the fruits and vegetables may be more expensive since it may have to cover the cost of sending it up to space *cough cough government do something* but just one e.g. tomato pretty much can feed a family of perhaps 5 for two to three days if you ask me. That is saving money. Children who hate vegetables are going to have a wild time of course which makes me think perhaps the fact that they are so large and take so long to consume (meaning that they have to be eaten in many meals so not to waste) could be the reason why the western scientist are not happy. Maybe they don like veggies and are irritated the chinese did not happen to send a cow to space.

Whatever is the outcome, whether it is another dodgey hoax story from China or not, we as "civilised people" should try to keep our minds open for ways to improve not only our living standards but also the 3rd world countries standards which huge populations suffer from starvations. Boo Hoo Hoo to "western scientist" if it turns are true and will obviously result in them are copying us chinese and claiming originality as well as superiority.