29/1/11
Open Letter to the SBA Forum Administrator
You have now over-reached your mandate as Administrator of this forum.
Considering that if the present government pro GM policy is successful. Beekeepers will be harvesting honey from a plethora of GM nectar bearing crops in the not too far distant future. This will of course be GM honey. GM crops require numerous treatments by Monsanto’s Roundup, glyphosate, which is known to harm humans; otherwise they are useless. If you are of the opinion that beekeepers and others do not have the right to informed opinion on either side of the GM debate – it is time for you to go!
There is a need for factual verifiable information on the antecedent’s of this company, which at present controls around 80% of the GM crops currently under cultivation world wide. The more so since it is now common knowledge that the original authorisation of GM crops was flawed and deemed not to require regulation. This company will ultimately control virtually all the arable foodstuff that will be consumed in the UK: GM soya, GM wheat, GM vegetable oil to name but a few. In fact once the GM policy is made law everything that we eat plant or animal will be GM and Monsanto has all the patents. Ignorance is bliss! No?
I look forward to your reinstatement of the post on Monsanto which you so high headedly closed. It would be a pity to endanger the continued existence of such a fine platform for the exchange of ideas no matter how different, due to personal prejudice.
I look forward to seeing you at the SBA., AGM in March.
Eric McArthur