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GM Nation (if you don`t care, do it for me)

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:55 / 10.07.03

Please go fill out the debate questionaire on this site regarding your views on GM foods and products. And make sure you are against GM.
http://www.gmnation.org.uk

We're The Great Old Ones Now

08:09 / 10.07.03

Make sure you use the 'other comments' bit, because it's mysteriously hard to express misgivings otherwise.

The Apple-Picker

13:01 / 10.07.03

Too bad I'm not against GM stuff.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:05 / 10.07.03

I suspect that if you took a look at a few of the more savage arguments about food modification - get hold of 'Captive State' by George Monbiot and read the chapter entitled Monsanto's Magic Potion - that might change.

It's not the notion of GM per se I have a problem with, it's the apparent urge to make profit at the expense of, for example, forcing nations and consumers to accept milk tainted with IGF1 (which can cause cancer) from cows producing vast quantities of puss in their milk.

GM crops may be safe - but there seems to be a drive to skip the testing process. You wouldn't do that with a new drug, and the government has recently been taking steps to force companies to test herbal and traditional medicinces - yet GM crops are being rushed through.

It reminds me of the energy reports produced for Thatch's government by the Nuclear Industry, which mysteriously came out very pro-nuclear power.

17:23 / 10.07.03

... cows producing vast quantities of puss in their milk.

They bred cows that make cats in their udders? Is that to make a really outstanding milk moustache or what? Cool.

Seriously though, if you're cynical I'm not sure Monbiot will change your mind. He's quite the polemicist, and not afraid to cut his cloth very skimpily to fit whatever he's arguing.

Instead, maybe, consider this quote from the website:

Claims that GM is safe for the environment are based on known potential risks only.

Then think about how much we actually know about evolution. I mean, actually, really know about the mechanism by which genes mutate. It's not called Darwin's Theory for nothing.

17:36 / 10.07.03

I might add it's entirely possible that the companies and other investors who have a hand in the GM pool, are most likely the ones (and conclusively the ones in the most recent scientific study, cited in the W. Bush damning the European community for not taking the GM vs. nature advantage to the suffering, hungry countries) who produce the results we see before us.

All theory aside, we can't be 100% certain about the effects and whatnots of a wider GM crops acceptance from the world.