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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: thamnophis AT gmail.com, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:14 -0400

And all I'm suggesting is that we have a lack of evidence that buying the current GMO's would improve income and nutrition in those areas of the world; and we do have some evidence that other methods would work better.

I agree that continuing to educate ourselves on this is a good idea, and that reading information from various viewpoints is important.

If you have any actual evidence that buying current GMO's has overall helped the situation of populations in areas where malnutrition is common, or any studies that consider all the various factors that have been brought up in that discussion and which appear to show that buying proposed GMO's would be likely to do so, I'll be happy to read them.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Thamnophis wrote:

Any new technology tends to worry us about unknown repercussions. I
think we owe it to ourselves to read what we can from both sides as
well as any objective summaries of the threats as well as the
potential.

It's easier to be critical of GMOs from our well fed perspective and
our historically inexpensive food supply.

From the many areas of the world where food costs constitute 50% of a
family's income and malnutrition is robbing people of their health and
potential the perspective might be understandably different.

All I'm suggesting is that people try to take a balanced approach to
this subject.

Joe
Boone County, IA




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