Thousands of people who have taken GE L-tryptophan have developed the highly unusual illness, eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome. This reminds us of the need for extreme caution with GE foods. […]
|
||||||
|
Thousands of people had fallen seriously ill due to taking GE food supplement L-tryptophan. The author draws the conclusion that there is a link between genetic engineering and the effects on human health eventhough the US regulators tried hard to deny it […] A new study shows that 20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities. […] There are many unanswered questions with regards to the safety of GE rice and its potentially serious negative environmental, health and socio-economic impacts. Given this situation, GE rice should not be commercialised. […] Greepeace report on why Bt11 should not be approved for cultivation in Europe. […] The impacts of agricultural biotechnology are here evaluated in the context of agroecological goals aimed at making agriculture more socially just, economically viable, and ecologically sound. […] The author contends that the key problem facing agroecologists, is that modern industrial agriculture, today epitomized by biotechnology, is founded on philosophical premises that are fundamentally flawed. […] The authors maintain that agroecology, a scientific discipline that uses ecological theory to study, design, manage and evaluate agricultural systems that are productive but also resource conserving, may well be the answer of hunger in the Third World. […] The author introduces agroecology as an example of the practice of sustainable agriculture. […] This research report documents the alternatives to thresholds and concludes that no relaxation of the zero tolerance standard is required given the availability of commercially viable, extremely low risk pathways to import seed. […] |
||||||
|
All our content may be republished or reused for free, except where otherwise noted. This site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||||