Comments on: We are what we eat!

By: Paul Handover

Paul Handover — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:46:01 +0000

Martin, hope it was a great and relaxing holiday for you.

Thanks for your feedback and, yes, your suspicions are, I’m sure, extremely well founded.

By: Martin Lack

Martin Lack — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:11:46 +0000

Sorry for such a delayed response (I have been away on holiday).

10-12 years ago, I lost most of the respect that I had for organisations like Greenpeace when they labelled GMOs as Frankenstein Food in order to scare the public – when they should have been focusing the public on the commercially-exploitative motive of the global companies marketing them.

GMOs recently made headlines in the UK because scientists say they can now make cereals self-fertilising (by making them grow nitrogen-fixing root nodules like sweet peas do). However, having checked my facts, it appears my suspicions were right; this may well reduce or eliminate the use of dangerouslly-polluting artificial fertilisers but… it will replace one form of dependency with another. It would be foolish to think big companies would voluntarily destroy the market for a controversial product (fertiliser) without creating an equally-lucrative market for a new product (GMO seeds).

I hope Greenpeace will not make the same mistake again because, quite clearly, the GMO genie is already out of the bottle. As with opposing oil exploration in the Arctic; we should try to help people see the bigger picture…

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:04:09 +0000

Basically all foods we eat are humanely GMOs. That’s the pro. The con, of course is that we use new methods nowadays, and some sound very dangerous.
In the case of the bees, there are NO excuses; all and any insecticides connected to bee deaths ought to be outlawed.
To bee or not to bee is not a question. Insecticides don’t just kill bees, they make them mad. So naturally one can suspect that children going mad is a related phenomenon, indeed…
PA