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1. I fail to understand why so far anyone investigating GM
foods has found 'no evidence'. If you seek out topics of this
on the internet you will see many examples of problems with
GM foodstuffs - people in America (of all places) reporting
illnesses after GM beans, Monarch butterflies killed by feeding
on GM plants, herbicide resistant weeds in Canada etc., etc..
These are FACTS but don't seem to have been acknowledged.
2. Testing has not been carried out in controlled environments
- planting crops in an open field is not what even scientists
would call controlled.
3. What is the reason for GM food anyway? - it is not to
feed the third world as we could do this today with governments
co-operation. Poor countries cannot afford to buy expensive
seed every year (most GM seed crops are sterile) and they
currently save seed from year to year. The real reason it
to patent and therefore recoup millions of pounds, so far
wasted on unneccessary and irrelevant research by Gm companies
like Monsanto.
4 Why is America trying to force people to take on its GM
products? Threats of tradesanctions etc. Why is America not
labelling GM products? If America wants to grow GM stuff fair
enough but don't push it here!
5. Inform the people and LABEL products. Let them make the
choice.
6. If in future generations there are found to be problems
which governments will face compensation claims! Even the
chairman of the Royal Society seems to have forgotten Thalidomide
when he says no harm reported to people. Thalidomide affected
the next generation not the current one!!!
Additionally, all investigations are possibly as equally
flawed as scientists carrying out the testing - they apparently
'forgot' that bees carry pollen up to 6 miles or worse that
the wind can pollinate over hundreds, thousands of miles -
unless tightly controlled and ALL evidence and potential evidence
is investigated, together with the reasons behind the whole
science of GM.
Talk about Ostriches burying their heads in the sand!
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