Critic
Mmmh… I like good
food. But also I like to know what I’m eating. The G.M. lobby is again on the “attack
“. And seems like some of the
British farmers and supermarkets are willing to embrace the “New brave World”.
Maybe in the short time this seems like a good business (financially speaking).
Specially if there is a nice sponsorship from some biotech giants from U.S.A (“naturally”).
There are no
precise and effective regulations regarding GMOs . From the begging of this
kind of production, (FDA) scientists warned about the need of extensive (long
term) studies, regarding the effect in human beings. Which in fact is not been
done…GMOs (genetically modified organisms can create unpredictable (“hard to
detect side effects”). Experiences done in laboratory, with rats, have shown
alarming effects (from sterilization, toxic, allergic reactions, weakening of
immune system and the developing of lethal diseases…) As consumers We have the right to know what we are
buying, and to have a choice. I ” wonder” why ,stubbornly, some British supermarkets insist in not
labelling the foods and products that (evidently) contain GMOS… Maybe because instinctively (and
wisely), lots of people would avoid them!
What is important
to know is that scientists and biotech companies don’t create (and are unable)
the original/wild seed… What they do is manipulation (even transferring genes
across natural species barriers). In long term no one knows the end result of
this (besides great mutations and unpredictability).
Studies have
shown that many people have
allergic reactions to Gm soy, but not the natural one
Why some farmers
would like to produce this kind of crops, because (they have been advertised as
a miracle and the “future”..) because they have been developed to be herbicide
tolerant (in many cases), surviving to the use of strong herbicides! Even some
GMs produce their own herbicide. These products are strongly branded, and in no
way promote the bio diversity and independence of farmers. These crops are
normally sterile (and can in many cases affect fertile crops around by
cross-pollination).
Any way there are
new hopes and different ways of doing things. Scientists from the National
Institute of Agriculture Botany in Cambridge (U.K.) were able to produce a new
variety of wheat without modifying the genetics of the grain. A new breed that
can be crossed with modern UK varieties ( and having the interesting qualities
of drought tolerance and disease resistant).
Contrary to what
brands (supermarket-companies) say there are no serious/independent trials of GM
foods.
