Retracted green light on GM crops feeds suspicions »
Posted by: pyderi 3 months, 3 weeks agoThough it was a good step in denying the previous given green light to the new GM crops of potato and maize how do we know that EFSA didn't made the same mistake before and we are producing crops that harm the human being and the environment? The European commission has ordered a second investigation on these crops but shouldn't a second investigat
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GHOSTWHOWALKS3 months, 3 weeks ago
Nor will I. The trouble I find is when asking the question of the people selling the food, or reading the labels, one isn't given the correct information. I've found that by doing a little searching, one can find out which foods contain GM and I refuse to buy it.
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Dionys3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hybrids are somewhat different from genetically modified foods. At least in terms of how it's accomplished. Hybridization involves time and selecting dominant crops or crops with particular genetic 'pluses' and mating them/crossing them with other crops with particular 'pluses' to bring about (hopefully) a hybrid that includes the best of both.
GM food these days often involves snipping bits of genetics from a different plant altogether (or animal sometimes) and inserting that snippet of genetic material into the genome of an existing plant.
What it comes down to is that I trust that nature knows when a plant should be sterile and not reproduce because of faulty genetics or hybridization but that I don't trust that scientists have any idea of what they're doing in terms of the impact inserting genes might have on the planet as s whole.
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Endoscopy3 months, 3 weeks ago
I agree that testing should be done.
"men still wants to do it in the search of high profits by powerful corporations."
Not only bad grammar but I get tired of blaming everything on corporate greed. The scientists are trying to create crops that will grow under bad conditions. Raised from a farm I know first hand the problems farmers face. They work very hard getting the land ready to plant. They plant their crops and work the fields to give the crop the best chance to grow. Then they are at the mercy of the weather. Too much rain, not enough rain, cold snap early or late, too hot, etc. Way back using a strain of winter wheat helped in a lot of cases. The yield per acre is where the farmer can make a profit or go bust. Too many bad years in a row and the farmer loses his farm. This is the problem scientists are trying to solve.
Remember that your food comes from the farmers and the small ones are being driven out of business slowly because of this.
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cowboygrandpa3 months, 3 weeks ago
Endoscopy:
Thats not the only reason the independant farmer is going out of business.
My cousin in Iowa has her farm with her husband. They work two jobs plus farm. The cost of equipment and the corporate takeover of farming have raised the cost of doing business.
Corporate owners could care less about the land. They want their profits.
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quackpot3 months, 3 weeks ago
I can appreciate your suspicion of seed monopolies that will determine what you plant and how much you will pay for seed.
I can appreciate your independence in wanting to plant what YOU want vs. what Argibusiness needs to make a profit on via it's patented seed.
I can appreciate your delima of proifits today at the cost of MUCH higher pesticide costs tomorrow.
I can appreciate you delima of risking a disaster due to all farms having the same seed as opposed to seed diversity.
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Natureboy3 months, 3 weeks ago
"This is the problem scientists are trying to solve."
Unfortunately, they are arrogantly trying to solve it with their own technology instead of observing and learning from mother nature.
Nothing goes south like a genetic monoculture, and nothing is less natural. We should be encouraging genetic diversity, and encouraging farmers to cultivate a diversity of crops.
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tkyrchncs3 months, 3 weeks ago
Every loaf of bread is a monoculture of yeast, every corn field is a monoculture, the cattle and pigs that need ear tags to be told one from another virtually the same. We only cultivate the plants and animals we want, and we select for the traits in those that we want, and we have been doing this for thousands of years. The only difference here is that rather than wait for mutations or coincidence of traits is that we are inserting the desired traits directly. What a bunch of alarmists. We cannot go back to a hunter-gatherer type of existence with our population. I am all for plants that resist disease and insects, and pigs that can produce human clotting factor, and I want a cat that glows in the dark. Sheesh, stable your oxen, boys and girls, and move into the 21st century.
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rumple4skin3 months, 3 weeks ago
Endoscopy, I want to comment on your comment: Most Americans have not had the 'pleasure' of working on a farm. It's hard work and machinery is expensive. I do not understand the point you were making however well you presented farm conditions. I would not want to be beholden to corporate seed-mongers for next years seed supply. I would not want to have to buy gallons of chemicals to germinate my seeds. I only wish the very best for small farms and hope they can form a united front to combat what appears to be a corporate drive-by shooting.
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getreal13 months, 3 weeks ago
It's all about the gas industry having a monopoly. Corn is Corn and can be eaten, the corn for the gas must be made un-consumable so the gas industry can become a monopoly on that.
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cowboygrandpa3 months, 3 weeks ago
These clowns who want to try and reinvent food are scary. Didn't we learn with the atomic bomb. Don't mess with things you can't control.
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cowboygrandpa3 months, 3 weeks ago
Yeah I read yours to. LOL
I don't care if you agree or not Wolfie. How many lives are affected by the stupidity of mans greed?
Now the desire to better mans conditions I agree with whole heartedly. Not when the bottom line is all about money though. Yes it is good and necessary to make a profit. But that is the wrong motivation if that is all you are after.
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canadianrancher573 months, 3 weeks ago
For those of you who are trying to avoid the GM products I think you are fighting a losing battle, there is usually a oil or meal used in the preparation of most foods and that fact sort of allows the manufacturer to use corn, soybesn or canola (rapeseed) for production and all three have GM plant varieties. Most of the GM plants have been designed to be able to withstand certain herbicides that kill nearly all other plants, the trait that allows them to do so already excists in certain plants so it is not really a new plant, by not using the recomended amount of herbicide when spaying these plants a farmer can create a resistant plant on his own farm because plants do evolve themselves. Although not a fan of GM plants I do grow them for the economics of it, it means less trips over the land and the moisture and fertilizer do not go for growing weeds.
The GM plants I am concerned about are the ones that produce toxins to kill things like corn bores which are small worms.
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tkyrchncs3 months, 3 weeks ago
We are not even certain where and how maize came into existence. The archeology and genetics are both so strange and murky, and there are no identifiable wild parental populations. Why should it be considered odd or bad to modify this plant?
I, too, am a little leary of added toxins, and somewhat of hormones, but only a little. After all we spray the ground, and the seeds, and the plants, besides all the naturally evolved toxins they already have.
Do you know that if you pick up an apple at the grocery store, and without washing it, just grind it up and analyze the poisonous substances in it, that 99% of them are natural to the fruit?
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jordan113 months, 3 weeks ago
I don't think stores are required to say which products are GM.
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freekyd3 months, 3 weeks ago
Eating tomatoes that taste like watermelon rind makes me say HURRY UP SOYLENT GREEN.
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