Re: GE crops

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Autoplectic wrote:
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011102210.html>
> 
> Bionic Growth For Biotech Crops
> Gene-Altered Agriculture Trending Global
> 
> By Justin Gillis
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, January 12, 2006; D01
> 
> Since genetically modified crops were first planted a decade ago, the
> acreage devoted to them worldwide has been growing at double-digit
> rates, and it did so again last year, jumping 11 percent to 222
> million acres, according to a new report.
> 
> The crops are gaining popularity in middle-income countries such as
> China, India and Brazil, the report says, with small cotton farmers in
> particular embracing a technology that allows them to grow more cotton
> while reducing the use of chemical pesticides.
> 
> The report notes that the world's most important food crop, rice,
> could be on the verge of a transformation. Iran has already
> commercialized gene-altered rice and China appears nearly ready to do
> so, the report says. Widespread acceptance of such rice could put crop
> biotechnology into the hands of the tens of millions of small rice
> farmers who grow nearly half the calories eaten by the human race.
> 
<...>

>From a posting to another list:

You Give Birth To What You Eat -
GM: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed - Independent (UK) via Pravda

 [ It just LOOKS like food, and with luck, your  infant will LOOK like an normal baby. ]

GM: New study shows unborn babies could be harmed
Geoffery Lean - The Independent January 8, 2006

Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn babies, startling new research suggests.

The study - carried out by a leading scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences - found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed on modified Soya died in the first three weeks of life, six times as many as those born to mothers with normal diets. Six times as many were also severely underweight.

The research - which is being prepared for publication - is just one of a clutch of recent studies that are reviving fears that GM food damages human health. Italian research has found that modified Soya affected the liver and pancreas of mice. Australia had to abandon a decade-long attempt to develop modified peas when an official study found they caused lung damage.
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http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=155781


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