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Does the UK want or need GMO food?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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With big Agricultural companies itching to grow GMO food in the EU, TTIP might open the door for them to do so. With the UK throwing away 7 tonnes of food per year, do we need GMO? |
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"With big Agricultural companies itching to grow GMO food in the EU, TTIP might open the door for them to do so. With the UK throwing away 7 tonnes of food per year, do we need GMO?"
Well, I believe TTIP GMO are YWD to QAS, depending on your view of DWPQ. Depends, really. |
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"With big Agricultural companies itching to grow GMO food in the EU, TTIP might open the door for them to do so. With the UK throwing away 7 tonnes of food per year, do we need GMO?
Well, I believe TTIP GMO are YWD to QAS, depending on your view of DWPQ. Depends, really."
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I don't think the UK needs GMO food. There are also issues with some of the patent holders and their business practices, which I don't believe are largely working in the interests of our world.
One of my problems has also been the creation of new or heightened problems, due to the GM crops. The use of killers, sprayed over GM crops which are resistant, which create environmental pollution.
There is lots of land that I would prefer to see cultivated with non GM food, before we even consider it. Tons of unused land that could be used by people to grow their own food locally, also reducing food miles.
We also eat a huge range of food stuff, that could be reduced, with much simpler foods being grown here, rather than more exotic stuff imported.
We also aren't likely able to prevent GM elements spreading into the wild, with potential build-up effects, as food moves through trophic levels.
Lots of reasons that I've not been convinced by the arguments for GM food to be grown here. |
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"With big Agricultural companies itching to grow GMO food in the EU, TTIP might open the door for them to do so. With the UK throwing away 7 tonnes of food per year, do we need GMO?"
If we're only throwing away 7 tonnes of food I think that's not bad, I'd have thought it would be very much more. |
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over a year ago
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Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)[2] was an American biologist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution"
Borlaug received his B.Sc. Biology 1937 and Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
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IMO, we don't need GMO's as these pollute other plant species. The knock on effect that cross pollination has is that enforcers can also knock on the farmers door and fine them for using proprietary biotechnology which has strong financial implications for farmers.
So I say NO to GMO. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Seemingly Bernard Mathews research and development facility genetically modified some Turkeys to lay eggs that hatch into chicks with 4 legs.......
Apparently they are a real bugger to catch though....
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I don't think the UK needs GMO food. There are also issues with some of the patent holders and their business practices, which I don't believe are largely working in the interests of our world.
One of my problems has also been the creation of new or heightened problems, due to the GM crops. The use of killers, sprayed over GM crops which are resistant, which create environmental pollution.
There is lots of land that I would prefer to see cultivated with non GM food, before we even consider it. Tons of unused land that could be used by people to grow their own food locally, also reducing food miles.
We also eat a huge range of food stuff, that could be reduced, with much simpler foods being grown here, rather than more exotic stuff imported.
We also aren't likely able to prevent GM elements spreading into the wild, with potential build-up effects, as food moves through trophic levels.
Lots of reasons that I've not been convinced by the arguments for GM food to be grown here."
I don't believe anybody should have the right to patent seeds or any living organizsm. Modifying a plants DNA so it has killer built in, then stopping them pollinating and reproducing so you have to buy more seeds, doesn't seem natural or morrally right. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes we do need it, if we are to overcome food shortage problems.
Pumping everything full of corn syrup is not gonna help our health in the long run. We need proper food to sustain out bodies, and it is likely gonna have to be modified to grow it or stop crops from dying.
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"Seemingly Bernard Mathews research and development facility genetically modified some Turkeys to lay eggs that hatch into chicks with 4 legs.......
Apparently they are a real bugger to catch though.... "
Honestly - I Have Seen 3 Legged Chickens on Poultry Farms and have Photo Evidence..  |
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