GMO/food = Biotech Crop
Attending a seminar on GMO/food and its benefits to mankind in terms of increased food production, improved agriculatural practices, improved income for the farmers etc.
But I've yet to see the figures of how it actually REDUCES poverty/scarcity of food/distribution of food resources.
Neither did it address the health issues or tests or checks conducted in protection of the consumers of these GMO food
Neither have I heard anything on labelling practices in Singapore/Asia or around the world for that matter.
maybe i'm a skeptic, but after 1hr of yakking, the slides revolve around increased land use, increase $$ which country in the continent is the lead in GMO food production etc. Does the $$ really get channeled back to the farmers? Or the landlords just get richer, the government just increase their export taxes?
When are we going to address REAL issues?
And please do tell me that No One is affected in terms of health by consuming GMO food, I dun believe.
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posted by Jen @ 10:51 AM
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Yup the hype about GM food is totally nonsense. Large multinational companies that sell GM crops are unfairly oppressing the small family farmers.
We can feed straving people better with better distribution of food and just by sharing the already over-production of food we see.
There was a fat scientist in my lab who gave a talk on GM food when I was doing my PhD. He was an overweight obnoxious man who kept telling us that GM food would help in preventing us from food shortages... Adrian Loo
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