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Hooray! There will be no GM crops in Britain
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And a lack of understanding of the effect it might have on normal species.
Not to mention the fact that as things stand a few private corporations control most of the market and plants are engineered not to breed and to be resistant to one kind of herbicide only, so the farmers are forever enslaved to buy new seeds year after year after year, and to use the herbicides that particular company sells.
The whole concept is bad news as it exists IMO. One day there might be a good and safe use for GM food, but I don't think we have reached that point by a long way.
But at the moment there seems to be no scientific consensus on how safe it is or what the long term effects on both human health and the environment are.
isn't that the company who produced agent orange for vietnam.........? and the company who have contaminated america's milk using bovine hormone growth in cows, who then develop mastitis?..........yeah they can stay the hell out of this country.....
Monsanto is well known for its dubious and extensive links with the Republican Party machine as well as intimidation and bullying tactics against enemies and competitors.
If people were being objective then I do not think it would be so demonised but Is think there is still an inate fear of anything involving genetic tampering, whatever the weight of scientific evidence........
I think the general consensus here is that tampering with food for profit (because sadly, most of it is done with profit in mind) is a dangerous business, especially because we do not fully understand the effects of cross contamination and once it's triggered it'd be difficult to reverse.
Perhaps people would trust it more if no mega-buck corporations were to be the main (dare I say only) beneficiaries of the technology.
But in the developing world, there is much more of an issue. Genetic modification is scary because of the technology used and genuine concerns over cross contamination and potential for human effects should not be ignored.
If only the money being pumped into GM research was spent on education in developing countries, perhaps we wouldn't need to face that dilemma.