Activists from the group Take the Flour Back are planning to destroy a trial plot of genetically engineered wheat at the Rothamsted research center in the UK. Apparently there is nothing anyone can do to stop this- short of a counter-demonstration of Science Defenders, or Defenders of the Enlightenment perhaps, going there to confront the [...]
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Cereal Killers
Posted by skepteco on May 3, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/cereal-killers/
GMO activists IOFGA jump the gun
Good article in the Guardian yesterday by Eoin Lettice from the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork, on Why Ireland needs to test GM potatoes. A major new European Union study is set to examine the effects of growing genetically modified, blight-resistant potato plants on biodiversity and the environment in [...]
Posted by skepteco on March 24, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/gmo-activists-iofga-jump-the-gun/
Genetic Engineering should be welcomed by the Organics movement
Seems like there is a crack of light opening up in the organic movement with regard to Genetic Engineering, judging by remarks made by Phil Bloomer, director of policy and campaigns at Oxfam, at the Soil Association’s annual conference in London on Friday (March 2): “From the outside the organic movement seems insular, like it [...]
Posted by skepteco on March 22, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/genetic-engineering-should-be-welcomed-by-the-organics-movement/
Does Ireland need Genetic Engineering?
The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine. So wrote John Mitchell, one of the leading Irish political writers of the day, in his tract on the Irish famine The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps) c.1861. While there were clear political causes for the famine of 1845- Ireland was still [...]
Posted by skepteco on March 16, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/does-ireland-need-genetic-engineering/
Big Question: Feast or Famine?
From Biofortified what it will take to feed the 7 Billion and counting: no silver bullets, but we have to stop all this ideological bickering:
Posted by skepteco on November 1, 2011
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/big-question-feast-or-famine/
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