Dangers of GM crops.

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/gedanger.htm

Christine, Spain.

:) TBH Christine I ain't got the time to read all that just now but I will bookmark it and have a look later. :)

I'm going to leave this now but before I go I'll concede that there are arguments against G.M food.

But I'll also say that Oxfam & I think I'm right in saying UNICEF agree that there are benefits to GM food and it could help alleviate starvation so .....

I'll hold onto the thought that if I were ever in the unfortunate position (God Forbid) of having to explain to a child dying in say Africa through lack of food that the reason that she had to die was because maybe just maybe, at some time in the future farmers from my country wouldn't have the choice to produce organic vegetables because of some cross contamination or maybe even because a company called Monsanto would be making giant profits from it ?

Or maybe (although I've yet to see the evidence but I will read the link !) there might be a chance of something? yet unquantified happening to the rest of us as a result at sometime in the future ?

Well I'd fail miserably and that's why although believe it or not I still have an open mind on this I tend to come down on the side of being pro GM food ! :(

My final word on the subject. :)

why cant they leave it to these things to nature. they dont know what exactly there playing with they have *ideas *but in 10 years time when alot more people are having problems with there health what are they going to say whoops, sorry . i dont see why we should be eating gm products without knowing it .
If a product has gm what ever in it i think they should put some kind of symbol on the front so you can have the choice to choose.
Whats next human cloning?

It appears to be possible for Mankind to live on Mars, constructing biodomes and creating water and oxygen. I liken the growing of GM crops as similar to sending people to Mars with equipment to get building, but with no chance of coming back if it goes wrong.
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:D :D :D  Sun reader!  Haven't graduated that far yet - the Orcadian is as far as I've got :D :D :D :D

We used to call the theory of GM "Frankenstein Science" in my genetics classes at Uni, way back when it was still only a theory and still impossible - the nearest we got in those days was re-growing carrots from one carrot cell - which was unmodified, as the technology to modify it didn't exist.  (Yup, you guessed it, I'm ANCIENT  :D )  Even the term "Genetically Modified" didn't exist, we used to say "If the genotype could be manipulated"!

One thing which cannot be foreseen at the moment is mutation.  All non-GM stuff mutates all the time - but only producing recombinants of what's there already.  With GM, you risk the possibility of mutation of something which should not be there - thus producing something which cannot be foreseen.  That alone is enough to stop doing it, IMO - given time which I don't have right now, I could come up with a lot more!  You're playing in my back yard now!  :D :D :D :D

Snorri
Twilight Zone
(BSc, believe it or not!)
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*given time which I don't have right now, I could come up with a lot more! * If you`ve got the time now I`d love to hear it :D
Not sure but I think I heard on the news last night that gm crops are not going ahead in UK now, did I hear correct does any one know?

Christine, Spain.

Yep, you heard right! Bayer (the German company which was licenced to supply the seed) has pulled out saying that 'there were too many strings attached' and that it wasn't viable. So the Government has announced that no GM will be grown for the foreseeable future.
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Oh thats good news then J/G :D
I was putting dogs out & O/H wasn`t listening!

Christine, Spain.

excellent news :D

by the way - lets see all the govts get together and feed the starving masses from the food mountains shall we?

Yes, excellent result, even if it is for totally the wrong reason!  The growing has been stopped in the UK because there's no longer any money to be had from it.  The so-called "good reasons" for growing GM crops have failed to outweigh "good ole cash", which shows what a load of hooey the GM merchants were spouting.  It was never about those super altruistic ideas at all.

What has to happen now is a halt on it being developed further or mass-cultivated anywhere else.

Snorri
Twilight Zone