GMO'S craapp!..

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.