Owen Paterson MP = Plonker

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

TGB, sound words my friend (and many more than I could muster the energy to iterate!)

[doobin]

I wish people would stop using the tired old 'we will need to feed X billion more people in X years time' line.

 

What are the extra billions going to do, live on fresh air whilst farmers play catch-up?

 

Of course they won't. As unpaletable as it may seem, hunger and starvation is the greatest control of the human population. Which I believe is required.

 

We'll be no worse off without GM. Farmers are only for it because they see it as a way to make greater profits. What they fail to grasp is that since they all sell into the same marketplace, they will always be price takers rather than price makers.

 

If we go GM, farmers will have to use it or go bankrupt. The only people making money will be the GM developers.

 

Using GM to produce more food to feed more people is not a desirable or laudable aim IMHO.

[jltree]

GM crops have nothing to do with "benefitting mankind" its all about profit for the companies that provide the seeds which are sterilised. In other words you cant save some seeds from your crop to plant next year's crop. You have to purchase them from the company. Eventually the local suppliers will all go bust because the GM crop seed manufacturers (and that word was used deliberately) can undercut them and then dominate the market charging whatever they like. The lengths that these companies will go to, to eradicate the opposition is astonishing and have highly placed staff in the corridors of power in the US. If you haven't read up on it I suggest you do because it is fascinating seeing how far they will go to peddle their lies and disinformation. Farmers in the US who oppose the likes of Monsanto etc have been dragged through the courts and threatened with bankruptcy just for daring to have a different opinion to them. There's no such thing as democracy any more and the 'land of the free' is certainly not the US.

The community channel did a documentary last year about it interviewing US farmers and activists opposed to GM crops and it had me glued to the telly for an hour and a half.

 

Whats wrong with profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Daniël Bos]

Whats wrong with profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Nothing in itself, but it's the cost in other things than money that is often overlooked for financial gain.

Even if the cost is enormous and the financial gain relatively small and just received by very few.

[Woodworks]

"Whats wrong with profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Nothing as such.

 

But should food be like other non essential commodities that can be patented and traded in just for profit?

[Amelanchier]

We are living in an era of greenwash. Pulling the truth from it is not always an easy thing to do. Just ask Mr Lynas...

 

Mark Lynas: truth, treachery and GM food | Environment | The Observer

[difflock]

Gee, I tink i recall someone earlier mentioning "propoganda" aka "Greenwash"