And what is the catholic church doing while all this is going on?
Ensuring their grip on a country's economic and political system,
extending their tentacles further into the population seeking new
followers, helping to undermine their traditional means of survival,
food production systems, natural health, family planning hoping to
increase their dependency on the state and the church.
Vatican now supports GMOs
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n1/full/nbt0111-11.html
Vatican panel backs GMOs
Anna Meldolesi
Nature Biotechnology 29, 11 (2011) doi:10.1038/nbt0111-11
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n1/full/nbt0111-11.html
Published online 10 January 2011
Reversing an earlier stand, the Vatican has gone public with detailed
arguments in favor of the expansion of genetically engineered crops,
especially in the developing world. This report is from Nature
Biotechnology:
A panel of scientists convened by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
(PAS) has made a passionate endorsement of genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) for global food security and development. The
statement, published in 16 languages in the 30 November issue of the
journal New Biotechnology
(http://www.ask-force.org/web/Vatican-PAS-Statement-FPT-PDF/PAS-Statement-English-FPT.pdf)
is the result of a workshop held in the Vatican in May 2009, involving 7
members of the PAS and 33 outside experts. It states that “there is a
moral imperative” to make the benefits of genetic engineering technology
“available on a larger scale to poor and vulnerable populations who want
them,” urging opponents to consider the harm that withholding this
technology will inflict on those who need it most.
The panel's key recommendation is to free transgenic varieties “from
excessive, unscientific regulation” that hampers agricultural progress
by inflating the costs needed for crop R&D. Ingo Potrykus, a member of
the panel and co-inventor of Golden Rice, who is at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich, is still waiting for its
beta-carotene–enriched seeds to reach the fields and sees that
decade-long delay as a bitter lesson for agricultural biotech. “There is
lots of high-quality publicly funded research and lots of goodwill for
public-private partnerships to use the technology for humanitarian ends,
but nobody can invest a comparable amount of funds [to that spent by
large agricultural firms]. It will be mandatory to change regulation if
we have any interest in using the technology for public good and in the
public sector and with nonindustrial crops.”
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