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The "You have all failed" recap. |
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06/09/2005 |
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purely on political considerations (a frightened, scientifically uninformed public).
While the US scientific community is not the sole arbiter on these issues, no European nation or group of nations has the combined expertise of the organizations I mentioned, including the premier scientific analysis and review resources of the peerless National Academy of Sciences.
Chemophobia is quite common among both our population and the western Europeans. But it is a phobia generally based on a lack of scientific education, not reality.
Genetically modified food is the world's greatest hope for reducing starvation, malnutrition AND the use of pesticides. The EU's position on the latter is as neanderthal as is Bush's view of stem cell research. Neither view is scientifically sound nor, more subjectively, morally sound. |
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concernes from top British doctors and scientists. Individuals who felt that the preliminary data was alarming and demanded further, long term, studies.
Shortly after those individuals raised the afore mentioned issues, many of them were pressured to change their positions or face forced early retirement or termination.
Monsanto has a powerful lobby in North America and has used its control and power to influence the scientific community in this country as well as Canada. Would you have us believe that politicians can not be bought or that the scientific research groups who primary funding comes from the same sources that Monsanto influences are above such manipulation?
These fears go beyond the US and Western Europe, in India and Russia the debate over GM food contunues, with a majority of the public demanding labeling on such products.
The outcry for labeling goes ignored by our own politcal system, a system that places corporate interest ahead of public concern. Why won't they put these labels on our food?
We both know that most Americans would opt to have non gm food when given the choice.
Please do not wave the manutrition and starvation flag. In my lifetime there has never been a shortage of milk or corn. Both of these products are in abundance. Shipping milk across the globe is not practical and none of the genetic modifications that have been made to corn are designind to incease the size or reduce the growing period of this crop.
GM corn is cheaper, bottom line. If Monsanto is so concerned about feeding the world why did they design a type of corn that has a suicide gene inside of it?
Corn that can only be eaten and not planted, corn that will not grow and yeild more corn?
How is that for morally sound?
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