GM Public debate (http://www.gmpublicdebate.org.uk/dz_08/index.asp)

I was given this by a friend in another site. She found it by accident so it isn't being overly advertised.

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Moon

Does anyone care about whether their food is genetically modified or was it just a fashion?

Does anyone care about whether their food is genetically modified or was it just a fashion?
I don't so long as it's cheap and there's plenty of it. People are getting severely ripped off with the organic food mularky.

Come and debate Frankenstein food in a non-jugemental unbiased arena.

Has this topic got merged or something? the link at the top of the page is 4 years out of date

Has this topic got merged or something? the link at the top of the page is 4 years out of dateIt's that Tony, he's trawling through old threads and resurrecting them. Anyway do you think Leeds will win the Premier League?

My concern is the damage the GM business has on smallholders in the third world.

It is not the sole reason for the horrendous suicide rates amongst India and South American farmers. Deregulation and free trade also share the blame for forcing small holders off their land, but GM is exacerbating the problems. Seeds sold to them as giving high yields turn out to require irrigation systems not available to them, monthly investments in pesticides (eg Monsanto's Roundup Ultra) banned in this country because of the health effects, that are building up resistances to pesticides in the weeds and killing off their other non-GM crops and having health impacts on the local population by polluting the water table and affecting the health of the child labourers that work in the fields. Where once India produced enough food to support its population and export it, now it produces GM cotton and GM Rice on large scale farms exporting them whilst paying the labourers barely enough to live on, especially with the cost of food having risen because the pesticides are killing off the plants they used to live off. In just 5 years 100,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide because of the changes to their agricultural economy.

Changes to the Indian economy. Ref (http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/agbiotech/index.html)

Monsanto and Child labour. Ref (http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/agbiotech/2003/monsantounilever.html)