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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22967571
Clearly Patterson is looking to move to a nice Directorship in a GM food producer when he's out at the next election - its pretty shameless and fundamentally inaccurate to say that GM foods are safer than normal foods that have been studied for centuries.
I like the BBC comments system too - all the 'Editors Picks' support GM lol - nice balance there...
Sadly all the benefits of GM can generally become disadvantages - like herbicide resistance - sounds great until it gets into the weeds you were trying to control in the first place.
The other big danger that goes unlooked is economic not scientific - the rise of GM could create new monopolies driving up the costs of food which would undoubtedly kill more people than any of the GM benefits supposedly save.
People point to golden rice as an example of the benefits of GM but they ignore the fact that no one is actually producing the stuff because there's no profit in it
GM is fundamentally about patenting crops and milking money from food production for big pharmaceuticals which will increase costs for us all.
Clearly Patterson is looking to move to a nice Directorship in a GM food producer when he's out at the next election - its pretty shameless and fundamentally inaccurate to say that GM foods are safer than normal foods that have been studied for centuries.
I like the BBC comments system too - all the 'Editors Picks' support GM lol - nice balance there...
Sadly all the benefits of GM can generally become disadvantages - like herbicide resistance - sounds great until it gets into the weeds you were trying to control in the first place.
The other big danger that goes unlooked is economic not scientific - the rise of GM could create new monopolies driving up the costs of food which would undoubtedly kill more people than any of the GM benefits supposedly save.
People point to golden rice as an example of the benefits of GM but they ignore the fact that no one is actually producing the stuff because there's no profit in it
GM is fundamentally about patenting crops and milking money from food production for big pharmaceuticals which will increase costs for us all.