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I have never been a fan of GM foods (and slipping into Saturday Night Live/Emily Letilla: 'Ford and Chrysler will have to open their own restaurants to stay competitive'....), they had in my unresearched opinion insufficient independent testing before being foisted upon the world. Basically the agrigiants went to the gov't with reams of paper and said 'It's all good.'
Well, it ain't.
Though the concept of growing wheat or whatever that's resistant to Roundup then bulk spraying your fields with Roundup to kill everything but your crop certainly has appeal, there's just too many interlocking levels in our planet's ecosystem. This study, done in the UK, collected millions of bugs and weeds, and showed that "...Flowers of such weeds are important as food for insects, while the seeds are a major source of sustenance for farmland birds." Screw up birds and insects and there will be pollination problems which will flow into other areas.
I particularly like the huge agribusinesses suing farmers for stealing seed when they find traces of GM crops in a field that didn't buy the licenses, and thus the seed, to plant said GM crops. Apparently winds don't blow seeds around in the areas where the GM crops were initially tested.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU DON'T MONKEY AROUND WITH, AND OUR FOOD CHAIN IS ONE OF THEM! Shmucks. And yes, I know what shmuck means, and I'm using it anyway. :-)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=306362005
Well, it ain't.
Though the concept of growing wheat or whatever that's resistant to Roundup then bulk spraying your fields with Roundup to kill everything but your crop certainly has appeal, there's just too many interlocking levels in our planet's ecosystem. This study, done in the UK, collected millions of bugs and weeds, and showed that "...Flowers of such weeds are important as food for insects, while the seeds are a major source of sustenance for farmland birds." Screw up birds and insects and there will be pollination problems which will flow into other areas.
I particularly like the huge agribusinesses suing farmers for stealing seed when they find traces of GM crops in a field that didn't buy the licenses, and thus the seed, to plant said GM crops. Apparently winds don't blow seeds around in the areas where the GM crops were initially tested.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU DON'T MONKEY AROUND WITH, AND OUR FOOD CHAIN IS ONE OF THEM! Shmucks. And yes, I know what shmuck means, and I'm using it anyway. :-)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=306362005
