blimey where do I start
1.study shows GM crops 'no better'
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/1999/jul/08/food.gm
2. Loss of farmers access to plant material and it encourages dependancy of small farnmers on large Agri Corps (who put profit before health and couldn't give a toss about feeding the hungry unless there was a buck to be made) - witness the Inian farmers committing suicide as a result
3. no long term studies on effects of human health
4, Genes can mutate with harmful effect
5. the problem of food production like alot of things in africa is down to miss management, under funding and corruption - you do not need GM food to solve this
and 6. a BIG point
run for profit organisations holding Intellectual property rights on food production!!
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Very quick point...
... A couple of months ago, weren't you decrying a law in America that you alleged undermined IP protection? That being the case, you seem to have changed your tune quite a bit...
The point is that, if we overhaul IP law internationally - and very few IP lawyers think that the system works, by the way - then that'd solve the problems with points 2 and 5.
As for 3, well - OK. Ignorance is no reason not to proceed though. There is also no reason to suspect that there would be harmful consequence.
4 - well, yes. That applies in nature, too. I don't see how taking control of genes makes that danger worse.
I can't be arsed with going into more detail. Work to do.
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