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Old 01-10-2003, 07:22 PM
Tumbleweed
 
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Default say non to GM - Join the Tractors & Trolley Parade - Monday 13th October 2003 London

"W K" wrote in message
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"Paul Rooney" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:21:41 +0100, Reidİ
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Following up to Paul Rooney

Hang about - GM is good, isn't it?

that's very much a matter of opinion isn't it Paul?


Efficient crops, disease-resistant veg, etc.


Swallowed the hype then?

In what way are the crops more efficient?

Any evidence that it's
bad?


Well, The rats eating too many potatoes stuff was rubbish.
BUT the real and less exciting aspect is that it allows crops to be

sprayed
with even more herbicides.


"GM" iself doesnt allow crops to be sprayed with more herbicide. One
specific type of GM enhigeered crop does. Others dont, for example Vitamin A
rice has nothing to do with roundup. GM is a technique, (or set of, or
meaningless catch-all phrase*), and its as ridiculous to claim that GM is
bad because one set of consequences of it are bad,as to claim that fire is
bad because houses burn down sometimes.
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Tumbleweed

*after all, what are all our current foodcrops if not Genetically Modified?

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