Re: Long -GM foods was Pix of genetically modified fruits and vegetables

Arri London wrote:

"phil..c" wrote:
Arri London wrote:
"modom (palindrome guy)" wrote:
Brief descriptions, too.
http://webecoist.com/2009/02/19/genetically-modified-fruits-vegetables/

I'd like to taste a lemato, I think.
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modom

Interesting page.
All the foodstuffs we eat are genetically modified. Sometimes that
modification took place centuries ago. Other modifications are more
modern.
Simple hybridisation (pollen transfer by insects, wind or humans) is
genetic modification. The insulin gene put into the lettuce required
more than pollen transfer :)
Carrots naturally come in many colours; the orange sort has become the
most common in parts of the world.
Arri I am still personally a NON GM sort of person
in some areas but not all I have profound issues with the manner and
corporate behaviour of the likes of Monsanto just to name one .
Consider the following:

<snip very good considerations>

BTDT, my PhD is in biotechnology/genetic engineering :) The work
concerned medical/pharmaceutical uses.

Arri wonderful discipline (off Ng we should perhaps speak again)
Some delightful stuff happening here by Natural cross pollination

We have been Trialing Indian mustard seed varieties, Lupins Tritacali
and wheat barely
and x breeding a sea grass with wheat and have had up/down success
with salt tolerant strains fighting our galloping soil salinity .

Also mucking about with result various peptides and breeding strains again via assisted ( camera blow brush is a handy tool )
of cereals that lead to less acidosis .

There has been some truly elegant science emerge as a result .



Never did any work with modifiying agricultural products for just those
reasons, but had to attend lectures/read up on those topics. What people
generally miss about agbiotech is that the seeds are *licenced* by the
user rather than being bought outright. That makes them unsuitable for
third-world/poor farmers, who would be at the mercy of brokers who could
actually read and understand the licencing agreements. It is illegal to
save seeds resulting from biotech crops, contrary to practices that have
worked well for millenia. Monsanto and other agbiotech companies have a
bad track record for trying to prosecute farmers whose crops turn out to
be engineered, when no such seed was deliberately planted. The seeds
were 'contaminated' in transit, which is another major issue.

Could also go on at great length but won't :)

Same here but there have been some dreadful decisions handed down by the courts because of certain querks in our laws .

Majority are going through the appeals process
but the big guns have far more money than farmers who have also had a bashing due to weather .

Here under our Joint Economic Development cells as well as the other hats I have to wear we are working with Unesco & others to address
what you & I have similar issues with .

Also touches on stock & human feeds a HUGE area
and getting the supply chain to comply is a nightmare in itself

Cheers we should swap papers <grin>

One of our Partners is also Negev University
ranging from Solar and renewable research to
dry land broad acre farming .

Food security is also a national security issue.
I better stop now as far beyond the charter of this group

Take care
Phil

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