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Comparison photos of GM/non-GM
"Moosh:]" wrote in message ... On 1 Aug 2003 11:39:27 GMT, Brian Sandle posted: Moosh:] wrote: On 29 Jul 2003 03:09:42 GMT, Brian Sandle posted: Gordon Couger wrote: From: "Brian Sandle" : As well as looking a bit less curly your non-GM plants are a darker green, : less yellow than the GM ones. How much of that is due to moisture storage : by the mulch, as opposed to some sort of residual effect of the Roundup : on the RR plants, or differences in film? I presume the film was the same. http://www.couger.com/farm There is no differece from the RR resistance most of the differece is one is taken faceing west and on is take facing south and the convential till has been out of the ground a little longer and is greener from more photosyntisis and less disease problems. But is the disease resulting from the need for the plant to put more energy into making the RR metabolizing protein? Brian, please look at some plant biochemistry texts and see how glyphosate resistance works and how protein expression takes negligible energy from the plants normal processes. That's a greenie scare tactic. Or is the yellowness something else, too? Lack of sunlight by comparison to the others, as he said. Plants need sunlight to actually make chlorophyll Linkname: Citizen's Vigil Exposes Bad Science in GM Crop Trial URL: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MunlochyVigil.php size: 204 lines [...] "The control crop has substantial leafage and a closed canopy, thus restricting the amount of light available for weeds to grow," explained Anthony and Nigel. There was much more variation among the plants in the GM crop. Many of the leaves had turned yellow or had yellow edges. And one of the plants in the GM field had started to flower, "probably four months early". In other words, the crop was showing typical signs of genetic instability that has plagued many other GM crops (see "Scrambled genome of RR soya" and other articles, ISIS News 9/10). This alone would invalidate any findings from the field trials, making the entire exercise pointless, particularly in the light of the new European Directive governing deliberate release of GM crops (see below). The GM oilseed rape fiasco was reported in the local Highland News at the beginning of December. Aventis' response was that although the varieties used are "very similar", the GM crop was of a "different" variety from the control, a fine example of Orwellian `doublespeak'. And no wonder, this particular GM oilseed rape was approved as "substantially equivalent" (to non GM oilseed rape) by the Scientific Committee on Plants in Europe. But that was before the European Directive for deliberate release has been substantially strengthened last year (see "Europe's new rules could sink all GMOs" ISIS News 11/12 www.i-sis.org.uk). This change of reference makes the farm-scale field trials obsolete, because they are unlikely to pass muster for commercial approval at the end. According to the report by the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, the object of the farm-scale field trials is not to find out if the GM crops are safe. Yield is also not relevant measure, even though some farmer experiencing such a drastic crop failure might well commit suicide. Both those aspects have already been "approved by the regulatory authorities". The farm-scale field trials are not designed to answer all key questions about GM crops. Only "some key indicators of biodiversity" will be monitored to see if there are differences between the two halves of each field. "This obviously makes a complete mockery of the science involved." Anthony and Nigel rightly conclude. The scientists who have approved such crops should be held to proper account. Where are some other honest comparison photos? Of what? You can't deny the instabilities. What instabilities? This is such a crock. Are these comparisons of the same strain? No, they aren't of the same variety I explained that some time ago. Gordon |
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