Nothing wrong with it in principle. I'm against GMO for the reasons most consumers are.Originally Posted by evercloserunion
I'll qualify my statement by saying there's nothing wrong with it as long as these potatoes are properly labelled in which case the farmers will cop on quick enough as no one will be buying their product.
I wonder if they'll be properly labelled? hmmm
Yes and just to make sure, they have started to scare the crap out of everyone by whipping up hysteria about "foodbourne illnesses"
Foodborne illness costs U.S. $152 billion annually: study | Reuters
non GMO grocery stores will become weapons of mass destruction!
We had the war on terror.. now get ready for the war on food.
This is good news.
Potatoes rock and soon hopefully there will be more rocking potatoes in the world thanks to these German geneticists. All organisms are GMO. It is called evolution. This GMO fear mongering is Bullcrap.
Get a life kerdasi amaq.
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Produced by BSAF, the largest chemical company in the world, I wouldn't be surprised if it is engineered to be dependent on their range of fungicides, herbicides and pesticides. Yum yum.
Nutritious cancer causing spuds, mmmmm tasty, would be nice with some bacon and cabbage.
Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes - Health News, Health & Families - The IndependentCampaigners against genetically modified crops in Britain last are calling for trials of GM potatoes this spring to be halted after releasing more evidence of links with cancers in laboratory rats.
UK Greenpeace activists said the findings, obtained from Russian trials after an eight-year court battle with the biotech industry, vindicated research by Dr Arpad Pusztai, whose work was criticised by the Royal Society and the Netherlands State Institute for Quality Control.
The disclosure last night of the Russian study on the GM Watch website led to calls for David Miliband, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to withdraw permission for new trials on GM potatoes to go ahead at secret sites in the UK this spring. Alan Simpson, a Labour MP and green campaigner, said: "These trials should be stopped. The research backs up the work of Arpad Pusztai and it shows that he was the victim of a smear campaign by the biotech industry. There has been a cover-up over these findings and the Government should not be a party to that."
Mr Simpson said the findings, which showed that lab rats developed tumours, were released by anti-GM campaigners in Wales. Dr Pusztai and a colleague used potatoes that had been genetically modified to produce a protein, lectin. They found cell damage in the rats' stomachs, and in parts of their intestines.
The research is likely to spark a fresh row about GM crops in Britain. Graham Thompson, a Greenpeace campaigner, said: "It is important because it backs up the research by Pusztai, which was smeared at the time by the industry."
Brian John of GM Free Cymru, who released the findings, said the research was conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and has been suppressed for eight years.
It showed that the potatoes did considerable damage to the rats' organs. Those in the "control groups" that were fed non-GM potatoes suffered ill-effects, but those fed GM potatoes suffered more serious organ and tissue damage.
Don't worry folks, when BSAFs (the largest chemical company in the world) wonder spuds hit the shelves and go into a myriad of processed foods they will be 100% safe. Safe I tell ya.
That's about all they are good for....The Amflora potato was developed by BASF, the German chemicals group, to provide high-quality starch for industrial customers, such as paper and textile manufacturers, and is unlikely to end up on consumers’ plates.
I have no problem buying GM foods. In fact, I avoid food specifically labeled as not containing GMO's, as I consider it to be fear mongering.
Anyway, these potatoes won't be hitting the shelves anyway, unless it's in a can of spray starch
BSAF have several GM potato varieties patented, not all of them are intended for industrial use, they have developed varieties that are supposedly phytophtera (potato blight) resistant. Now that they have the green light to cultivate Amflora they have their foot in the door, do you think that they won't submit other varieties for approval?. A precedent has been set, it is only a matter of time before the stuff hits the shelves. Monsanto have a cooperation arrangement with BASF, no doubt they are taking notice of this development. Europe is a big market.
http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/...Innovation.pdf
A Canadian government department is poised to approve genetically modified pigs for the food supply, the Canwest News Service reported Friday.This is good news.
Potatoes rock and soon hopefully there will be more rocking potatoes in the world thanks to these German geneticists. All organisms are GMO. It is called evolution. This GMO fear mongering is Bullcrap.
Get a life kerdasi amaq.
The Yorkshire pigs were developed by researchers in Ontario at the University of Guelph, who spliced in genes from mice
to decrease the amount of phosphorus produced in the pigs' dung, the report said.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Internat...0481266598808/
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Agree with all this.
It seems inevitable that the un-needed technology will grow, i consider it akin to privatisation of life itself, taking something that is good enough as it is (food) and making it so that it belongs to private corporations as if it were entirely their creation. Every country should keep it's own seed bank, full of viable seeds of natural crops - replenish when necessary - so that any year if something goes wrong with GM or if the corporations become aggressive (at such point in the future when competing natural crops are scarce) then a country can re-seed it's fields with normal crops in short order.
The possible effects on health from consuming them are another matter, at least there are no unnatural side effects from eating natural potatoes, but potatoes as they are cannot be made into the intellectual property of a soul-less corporation, you have to modify them in some way first... To me that's what GM is about, privatising all food (before it was just the land that was privatised), they would make GM air if they could figure out a way to profit from it - Monsanto are already on to the game of privatising water as humankind's usage increases this is definitely a potentially lucrative racket... It is targetting areas like India with it's huge population and obviously doesn't care if the people living there are going to need their water....
Monsanto Moves to Control Water Resources & Fish Farming in India & the Third World--Vandana Shiva
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