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You Might Think Your A Vegan But Your Eating Ronald Reagen. OR Now You Think I'm Joking But Soon You'll Be Choking.******************************* It's weird Uncle Pete the tasty treat and soon he'll be in all that you eat. You may not know him on the street, but he'll soon be in each tasty treat. Though you won't find it on your label, it's old aunt Mable on your supper table. In corn on the cob there's a bit of old Bob, and a dash of aunt Betty and Barbara. And though it must suit those corporate suits I find it to be quite macabre.

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The irrational, suspicious reaction to GM crops seems to know no limits. It is actually quite disturbing, because the criticisms directed towards GM crops reflects a hatred of the enlightenment proposition: that human reason will triumph over superstition, fear and ignorance. I believe that nature is not good enough for humanity. We have developed more choice over how we live our lives - we no longer live at the mercy of nature. It has only been through developing a technological society, which has meant, we in the advanced West no longer suffer from starvation and hunger. I have read a lot of superstitious nonsense and ignorance in regards to the nature of GM. One such nonsense is that GM is a new type of crop product. But GM is nothing of the sort. GM is not a product - it's a process. The last 300 years have seen humanity taking things from nature, like for example wild grass and bred it into wheat, barley, rye and oats. Charles Darwin called this process artifical selection, where artifical means human action. No more reliance on biological chance.

Didn't I read that chimp and human DNA was only 2% different? Some difference. And yes, history is the history of different species intermingling. But since we seldom are the same as the persons experiencing the initial change, we can't really say for sure what happened to us back then, can we? Fifty five million years ago, the human race became uniquely poised to vanish at the drop of a hat---bipeds developed a universal defect that is fatal. Were we to experience a unique deprivation in our diet, we would survive only weeks. We, among all other animal life(only 2 minor exceptions) of this land life, are unable to store any amount of vitamin c in our bodies.

Issues of Ecology and Environment in Nepal Shailendra Chauhan Although industrial and infrastructure development is still in its infancy in Nepal, changes in atmospheric condition have been noticed in some parts of the country due to gaseous emission from mobile and s tationary sources. About 85 per cent of the total population who reside in rural areas meets their energy demand from biomass combustion, particularly firewood, while about 15 per cent of the total populati on living in urban areas is exposed to different levels of concentration of gases, including greenhouse gases (GHGs).

Creating Hunger With GM Crops Gordon Conway argues that biotechnology will "immeasurably improve" the lives of African farmers, yet his own article contains clear evidence that it is likely to further impoverish them. As he rightly points out: "In Africa, poverty is essentially rural and the only way out of poverty is through development based on agricultural and other rural resources. * 70% of African employment is on small-scale farms * 40% of all African export earnings are from agriculture * Around 30% of African gross national product (GNP) is based on agriculture - and for most Africans there is really not a choice of

Personally, I am quite agnostic as to whether Percy Schmeiser should be considered to be a hero. He seems to attract polarised opinions. Some think that he is an ordinary man who has been wronged by big business. Others like the last discussant would argue that Percy Schmeiser is something of a villain - because he had knowledge of there being GM crops on his land. Obviously, the view of the Supreme Court of Canada as to the knowledge of Percy Schmeiser is quite important. It will help determine whether he is guilty of infringement, and what remedies they might impose. My perspective is that the case demonstrates the need for a recognition of an innocent bystanders defence and a farmers privilege under patent law. Whatever the facts of the Percy Schmeiser case, it does seem a possibility that a farmer could infringe a patent innocently when saving seed.

percy schmeisser, despite the momentum and inertia his claim has generated for the anti-gmo movement, is an example of duplicity at its very political worst, or best. word is percy lied outright about the crop (i.e., he planted the seed intentionally himself), deflecting this into a larger, extended, complicated debate about gmo. the majority of saskatchewan grain farmers have shown a reluctance to gmo-produced seed; monsanto is aware of this and have gone on record as such, saying perhaps they need to corner another market. i disagree with the commercial ownership of organisms, and am further very uneasy about the synthetic manufacture and design of such organisms.

I live in a small, sleepy seaside town called Weston-super-Mare. It's notable mainly for having the highest number of registered addicts per '000 population in the UK - possibly in the world. As local tourism declined, small hotels were transformed into old peoples' homes, then (as taxes and subsidies changed and they couldn't make any money either) they re-invented themselves as copies of a local rehab' and detox clinic. The small town now has 11% of the UK's rehab centres - other population centres ship their addicts to us... and if they're cured, they stay here - to avoid returning to the situation which gave rise to their addiction - and if they drop out, they tend to stay here as well.

For almost 20 years disease and famine have been ravaging sub-Saharan Africa. Remember Comic Relief, the campaign brokered in the mid-80s by the English pop star Bob Geldof to distribute food aid to the sick and hungry of the horn of Africa? Today, with displaced people fleeing war, climate change and a non-existent agricultural policy, hardly a year passes without food aid being urgently needed in one African country or other. At the world food summit in 1996, organised under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the world’s political leaders committed themselves to cutting the number of people suffering from hunger worldwide to 400 million by 2015. More than half of those 400 million live in Africa. How do they propose to do it? Who is going to feed those 400 million people?

I am appalled by Mr. Sharma's statement that "Zambia and Zimbabwe led the resistance against GM foods, saying that it would prefer its poor to die than to feed them with unhealthy food." Firstly, GM food is not unhealthy. Secondly, for any government to make such irresponsible decisions on the part of its citizens is entirely unconcionable. Mr. Sharma's article is irresponsible in tacitly supporting such lunacy. There is a great deal of scientific evidence to support the use and continued development of genetically modified crops. The interested lay reader should make an effort to seek out the truth, which is not well represented in Mr.

We in the U.S. were not given a choice in the GM Food debate. No one has a "family Farm" producing there own food nowdays. GM Foods was in our bodies befor we even knew about GM Food.

In _The war of the world: America, GM, and developing countries_ we hear from another deceitful activist, Devinder Sharma. There is a very real problem in world agriculture; heavily subsidized and protectionist policies that impoverish less developed regions and nations. All developed nations commit this crime against less developed countries but by far the worst offender is the European Union. Sharma rails against the US and international trade organizations but says nothing at all about the worst offender. The intellectual and moral poverty of Sharma's deceitful rant is stunning. Hunger is a huge problem in the world. Poverty, disease, lack of education, oppression of women and minorities, population growth, environmental degradation and political oppression are all direct consequences of food insecurity. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization, the base on which development stands. Improving the ability of poor peoples to produce sufficient food for their needs is the first step in helping them uplift themselves.

Reading _Marketing GM: the making of poverty_ raises questions about anti-GM activists: is anyone really this stupid? It doesn't seem likely. It's possible that the article was ghost written by a journalist who cynically repeated the idiocies of a truly dull witted and ignorant person, but that seems less likely than the simpler explanation that Kisan Mehta is the cynic who assumes that stupid and ignorant people will read the article. There is no reason why a GM seed would be more expensive than any other seed or that it couldn't be saved from season to season, shared with neighbors, planted in combination with other varieties or in any other way disrupt the traditional agro-economic system used in India. Mehta's whole argument is rubbish.

In _Andhra Pradesh: the land is ours_ Jyoti Fernandes voices a common confusion about agriculture by mistaking industrial agriculture for intensive agriculture. What is currently practiced on the Deccan Plateau is intensive agriculture. The industrial methods of collectivization or consolidation of small fields worked by individuals and families to eek out a subsistence living, and the use of improved seeds, mechanization, irrigation and fertilizer in an alternative agronomic system is more properly called extensive agriculture. Extensive agriculture seeks to maximize production and minimize labor by using different cultivars, chemicals and machinery. It is necessarily large scale and constrained to monocultures so that machinery can replace labor. It is usually less intensive that smaller scale agriculture since it is difficult to use every scrap of land and take advantage of multicropping opportunities. The crops grown are high value, often export quality.

In _GM crops: the voice of Canadian farmers_ we hear a number of petty complaints and wheezes from wealthy industrial farmers but one stands out, deserves complete refutation, since it exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of their position. "Global hunger is the result of faulty distribution, not deficient production. Solving infrastructure problems takes a different kind of political will from introducing GM crops." This is a common confusion, false in every sense. There is not sufficient food produced in the world to eliminate food insecurity. There are surpluses produced in some places, some times, but not a continuous excess of production sufficient to feed a billion food insecure people.