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Originally Posted by forfismum
So you recommend that folks stick their hands in the fire to prove for themselves that it burns? Excellent approach.
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No, just do a proper risk assessment. Using a single survey
Evidence that oilseed rape (Brassica napus ssp. ol...[Scott Med J. 1995] - PubMed Result with no cause linked to effect as a way of making a decision doesn’t strike me as the ideal way forward. This is the sort of thing that results in an MMR debacle. I am not that fussed by it, if people want to live their lives jumping at shadows rather than doing rigorous risk assessments, that is no skin off my nose (unless I get caught up in it).
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Originally Posted by forfismum
Profit for Monsanto el al,that's all its about ,the rest is just sales talk.
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Not according to this study:
AgBioForum 9(3): Global Impact of Biotech Crops: Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects in the First Ten Years of Commercial Use or this one:
AgBioForum 2(2): Farm-Level Production Effects Related To The Adoption Of Genetically Modified Cotton For Pest Management or
AgBioForum 7(3): Economic Impact of Genetically Modified Cotton in India AgBioForum 5(1): Benefits from Bt Cotton Use by Smallholder Farmers in South Africa AgBioForum 2(2): The Distribution Of Benefits From The Introduction Of Transgenic Cotton Varieties
Of course, like everything it is not all plain sailing for everyone, but enough farmers have benefitted for 125 million of them to be planting these crops this year.