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[Marsha Hanzi <hanzibra@svn.com.br>]

GMO's do NOT feed the world!   A recent survey of several thousand sites 
showed that they are
LESS productive than what is being used today.   So there is  absolutely NO 
advantage to the
farmer to plant them.  And they don't reduce toxic applications either-- on 
the contrary
Roundup Ready beans are organized to survive EVEN GREATER  applications of 
herbicides...

Marsha

Guy Clark escreveu:

> Hey folks-
>         I will be on a local one hour radio show later today (7 p.m.) on 
> KOPN here
> in Columbia, MO talking about genetic engineering and I have a couple of
> hundred questions. I will limit them to just a few:
>
> Does anyone have a good list of biotech employees that have gone into the
> regulatory agencies? And did they go back to their former jobs when they
> got done?
>
> I am working on a list of companies/countries/agencies/groups that have
> passed anti-GMO decisions, does one already exist, or the pieces of one?
>
> I am also trying to make a list of GMO ingredients in our food supply, does
> one, or the pieces of one, already exist?
>
> I am working on the question from the perspective of arguments used by
> apologists of the technology and why they are fallacious. Here are some of
> the ones I am working on:
>
> GMO foods are not significantly different than hybrids.
>         Difference in kind, not in degree
>         Not enough to regulate, but enough to patent
> GMO foods are safe.
>         To non-GMO farmers
>                 Genetic drift
>                 Increased prolificacy and promiscuousness of GMO's
>                 Superweeds/superbugs
>                 Genie out of the bottle problem
>         To humans
>                 Concerns about increased food allergies
>                 Unanticipated problems due to novel combinations
>                 Ethical and religious concerns
>                 Loss of antibiotics due to use of such as gene markers
>         To the rest of the environment
>                 Terminator/Traitor technology
>                 Monarch Butterfly/Green Lacewing studies
>                 Concerns about damage to bird populations
>         The difference between not proven unsafe and precautionary          
>     principle
> GMO foods are well regulated.
>         By whom? Revolving door problem
>         Agencies caught between regulating/promoting technologies           
>     (witness
> USDA's collusion in creation of Terminator)
>         Regulation divided among different scientists in different          
>     departments
> of different agencies whose agendas are                 not always in synch.
> We need GMO's to:
>         Feed the world
>         Reduce the use of toxic chemicals
> Those who resist the expansion of GMO's are:
>         Tree hugging environmentalist/Luddites
>         Foreign protectionists
>         Irrational
>
> So what am I missing? Please help. I will be at the farm most of tomorrow
> picking for my CSA delivery/Wed. market.
> Namaste',
> Guy Clark
>
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