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Fencesandwindows discovered 10 months ago- Cheeky bastards. Trying to paint GM crops as our only way to cope with the effects of global warming. Utter rot. GM cotton has been a disaster in India - as much it was a nice idea, GM is a blunt tool compared to standard breeding, it is risky, and its real purpose is to allow crops to be made proprietary. "Recent polls also revealed that about 70% of the European public remained opposed to GM foods. However, ministers are confident that the technology's virtues will be more apparent this time because of increased public awareness of pressing environmental concerns. "The ability to have drought-resistant crops is important not only for the UK but for other parts of the world," said the source. "And the fact that some GM crops can produce higher yields in more difficult climactic conditions is going to be important if we're going to feed the growing world population.""
- lisabal rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "But Mr Little (chairman of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council, UK) said environment campaigners had misled the public into fearing GM. "All of the suggestions that they've made about the horrible things that could happen, nothing's happened." He pointed to Australia as a place where public opinion on GM technology was turned around. "There's a country that has gone through the moratoriums, has gone through the we're-not-sure, the NGOs have been in there and caused mayhem, and come out the other end saying this is a useful technology and the public support it." Do we now? Or are we just uninformed? Thankyou to dgirlp, in whose pages I found this article. And as dgirlp has done I quote Fencesandwindows, from the comments page: "Cheeky bastards. Trying to paint GM crops as our only way to cope with the effects of global warming. Utter rot. GM cotton has been a disaster in India - as much it is was a nice idea, GM is a blunt tool compared to standard breeding, it is risky, and its real purpose is to allow crops to be made propietary." Cheeky bastards indeed.
- dgirlp rated 10 months ago
- This review from: http://fencesandwindows.stumbleupon.com/ Cheeky bastards. Trying to paint GM crops as our only way to cope with the effects of global warming. Utter rot. GM cotton has been a disaster in India - as much it is was a nice idea, GM is a blunt tool compared to standard breeding, it is risky, and its real purpose is to allow crops to be made propietary. "Recent polls also revealed that about 70% of the European public remained opposed to GM foods. However, ministers are confident that the technology's virtues will be more apparent this time because of increased public awareness of pressing environmental concerns. "The ability to have drought-resistant crops is important not only for the UK but for other parts of the world," said the source. "And the fact that some GM crops can produce higher yields in more difficult climactic conditions is going to be important if we're going to feed the growing world population.""
