How Gm Firms Could Rob Us of Nature's Gift - the Seeds of Life
Daily Mail › September 03, 2008
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WE NOW know from 30 years of interna-tional research and development that modern plants and food produced using biotechnology are safe. Food containing genetically modi-fied ingredients are already on our supermarket shelves, and livestock here are being fed genetically modified feeds.'
This is what Prof Jimmy Burke of Teagasc, the body that advises the Government on agriculture, recently told a conference in Cork. It came as something of a surprise to me, given the commitment in the Programme for Government to the creation of an all-Ireland GM- free zone. Is Teagasc giving two fingers to its paymasters?See the full content of this document
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How Gm Firms Could Rob Us of Nature's Gift - the Seeds of Life
He also told the conference, which Teagasc organised, that we need an 'open, transparent and inclusive' debate on genetically modified foods while claiming that biotechnology is good for society and for agriculture.
As Senator Dan Boyle of the Green Party has pointed out, this is a bit rich given that the conference ignored issues li...See the full content of this document
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