http://www.connectotel.com/gmfood/ne210604.txt

justify this shit

has anyone done any long term studys into the effects of starving to death on children. because 20% of kids die in zambia before they are 5 years old.there children die and they are rejecting food because WE in the west are so vocal about what may or may not be the case with gm foods.what is wrong with the west????

http://www.worldmessageday.org/child-starvation-facts.html

You do have a point and I have to say I am not vehemently opposed to GM, particularly as it is a secondary issue.

The problem I have with your arguement is that the world could be fed as farmers in the west are subsidised to leave fields uncultivated, to produce less and even sometimes to destroy yield. Drawing attention to this as well as campaigning for better supplies of agricultural technology and techniques to the third world would a better use of time. Also stability would have to be in place in a lot of third world countries so they can get on with the important work of feeding themselves instead of privatising utilities to get loans from the world bank and having to carry out all kinds of neo-liberal policies to get money from the west.

GM science is benevolent (much like splitting the atom). It's the way in which man is using it that is so objectionable.

To suggest that the technology would ever be used to eliminate world hunger is just plain naive. GM corps may develop seed that can grow in the most extreme of environments. They also take out the reproduction elements. Meaning that instead of a farmer having something that he can begin to cultivate poor land with, he has a crop that he must make enough money from to buy more seed the next year. Those that need it the most will not be able to afford it.

The hostility to GM crops on these shores is for many reasons. Once they are grown here and begin to cross fertilise existing plants there is no going back.

Remember that feeding cattle minced up other cattle's spinal chords seemed like an easy way to a cheap and bountiful supply of food at one point.