I would rather have no GM products at all
The answer for S.A. is to stop their population explosion by birth controll
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CanonCaliber A big bore, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 13:44,
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that's all jolly good and all
but if we stop using GM crops tomorrow we'll have real problems within a year or two, while your little birth controll idea won't give results within the next 80 years when a large enough chunk of the population has died off.
what are we going to do during that time?
any ideas?
not a single fucking one of the plants that we grow and eat now looked like that when people found them and started growing them.
We've been messing with our crop plants for a good few thousand years now. GM is just a faster way of doing it.
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The little pink animal is mostly harmless, except on, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:41,
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what bollocks is this?
its not like you have a vested interst in it - like your a micro biologist..oh wait
also:www.guardian.co.uk/environment/1999/jul/08/food.gm
food shortages and production is a more complex issue having roots in mismanagement and politics that 'overpopulation'
for exanmple the north west african famine has more to do with the civil war and inability for the population to plant its harvest - (which is making it harder for them to deal with the drough) - trhe politics and corruption and poverty (selling off of national assets to foreign multi nationals as a prerequisite of deals with IMF loans) ar e all more serious factors than numbers of people
introducting more dependancy on the western multi-nationals is most certainly not the way to go for these people and neither is run for profit organisations holding Intellectual property rights on their food production
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