Hi Gavin,
thanks for the explanation. You might be right and this could be perfectly harmless, but I'll be very unscientific now and tell you that I just don't like it. Why can't we leave our food as it is without the tinkering?
When you look at the oil drilling you could also say that for decades is was nearly perfectly safe and harmless, and suddenly we have an environmental catastrophy. It won't be easy to convince me that GM technology can't come up with it's own environmental disaster in good time.
And there are other negative impacts associated with GM crops, like the licensing issues and the whole concept of roundup-resistance.
On our farm we have now used innovative organic methods which have led to bumper crops of grass and cereals. Our animals are doing better than ever before and the whole place is buzzing with insects and birds. It is possible to feed the world with organic agriculture, but those who make their money by selling fertilizers and pesticides will deny it.
I could post some pictures of our happy Highland cows if you don't think that's too far off-topic.
Doris
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