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Old 09-08-2003, 05:44 AM
Gordon Couger
 
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Default biotech & famine


"Walter Epp" wrote in message
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"Gordon Couger" wrote:
For example, genetically engineered constructs are unstable - the
artificial mechanisms that enable foreign genes to be inserted also enable
them to jump out and re-insert somewhere else, resulting in unpredictable
recombinations. The realization is dawning that if genetically engineered
crops are planted on a large scale and contaminate large amounts of

non-gmo
crops before the cascading instabilities end in a genetic implosion, the
result could be the largest famine in history.
Go to http://www.i-sis.org.uk/meltdown.php
and http://www.i-sis.org.uk/unstable.php for explanation and references.


Bull shit

It's a bit arrogant to presume we know more about how to grow things
in africa than africans do.
I heard from a ugandan who works on agriculture issues who said
when they were given seeds by the west during a drought, many of them
did not even sprout, so they learned the next time around to say thank
you, eat the western seeds, and plant their indigenous ones which are
adapted to local conditions and do sprout.

South Africans sure like BT cotton.

Gordon


 
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