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Originally Posted by forfismum
When I mentioned the ban on growing rape near schools you said that I lived in a funny country.This funny country used the Scottish experience to advise against growing the stuff anywhere near schools,as did HMG.
Not withstanding all the to-ing and fro-ing about the long term damage possibilites of GMO's I want to make just one observation .This technology is about profit and profit alone. |
Indeed I do think you live in a funny country if your government mistakes correlation for causation, particularly when that correlation is in a different country. But then I have always thought politicians make odd decisions.
GM crops are certainly about profit. As indeed are any other cultivar of crop sold. If the seed sellers can't make a profit on their operations they go broke. Equally, in most countries if farmers cannot make money they go broke. I understand parts of the EU are different where farming is more landscape gardening than a business.
However, I should point out that some GM crops are not about profit. Farmers adopt Bt cotton in Australia so they don't have to spray insecticides. Farmers in China adopted Bt cotton so they didn't have to poison themselves with insecticides. Canadian farmers adopted GM canola so they didn't have to cultivate the soil. US farmers adopted GM soybeans so they could spend less time plowing their land and more time doing other things.