This we have heard before. It was 50 years ago when the Green Revolution introduced intensive agriculture and livestock (and not managed to eradicate hunger). Leaving aside the obvious question that hungriness HA nothing to do with the deficiency of resource but rather with its distribution behind seemingly laudable goal lie a very different reality.

Genetic manipulation applied to crops was born several years ago with three ambitious and bright future:

improve the production reduce the use of herbicide and insecticide especially in culture receiving various insecticide rain along its growing cycle (eg. cotton)

as a effect of this nutrient supply twice as many people who currently fed using the Lapp arable land.

If these goal are achieved resistant crop could be achieved dirt salt or drouth . . and there would be no hungriness deserts.

sound like a plan but let us note in more detail . . .

A transgenic crop is born from a seed that HA been genetically engineered by splice of a cistron of another living being. This operator HA an end which is now

culture which produces the toxin against certain insects, or

that is resistant civilization (i. e. Energy not affect) to a specific herbicide.

Of all current gram crop 30 belong to the first grouping and 70 to the second.

crop that produce a toxin known as Bt crop and its name refers to the B thuringiensis natural habitant of the dirt whose action attempt to imitate. The idea is that what used to be sprinkled over the civilization and time again now produce the Lapp plant.

It seems practical. And clean it? The question is why a specific crop need increasing dose of insecticides? The answer is that plague have become resistant to it and every time we need more measure for the Lapp population control (pest).

Following the reasoning that the insecticide spray or is inclulido on the ground Energy not alter the basic issue the opposition is present more Oklahoman or later and in fact as many expert predict that by 2004 this opposition volition be among us. And with it another problem: indiscriminately affect GM crops and conventional. At that time one of the natural dirt pesticide more environmentally benign cease to be useful.

The other grouping of transgenic crop is a real bargain for the husbandman when you buy the seed also purchase the weedkiller to which the seed is resistant. Since this is a herbicide can weaken and eliminate a large number of herbs, the farmer gets cleanly, with one product to keep their fields clean. Not yet proven to effectively reduce the need for herbicide but it is a concern for those who produce the seed and weedkiller no doubt.

The opposition job recurs and in fact was verified for the first time in 1995 with a assortment of rye he believes weed opposition find a clear way to extend ease transgenic weedkiller because it volition eliminate its rival weakest. The surviving volition become a lousy grass that grow out of control.

The terrifying narrative of transgene threw off the yoke. In 1997 a twelvemonth after its first commercial deployment in Canada a farmerreported and DNA test have confirmed that the rapeReady Roundrup Monsanto pollenation had spread to a nearby wildlife species producing a weed with weedkiller resistance.

This is truly the bosom of the matter if a gram crop is able to reproduce sexually and expert say it is generally transgene escape is inevitable if any wild relation grows in the vicinity. In industrialized countries, this does not seem a risk as the most important crops from an economic standpoint, have few close relatives. In what we call the one-third universe genetic pollution threatens biodiversity and clearly put us in the custody of multinational seed manufacturers.

For those who think that progress entails certain sacrifices, let’s see what we are talking

Most of the negative aspect of the transgenic derived from vector through which transportation the cistron that becomes transgenics. They are

The vector derived from parasite virus plasmid and so on. Basically, it’s DNA (genetic material) capable of invading parasite seed cells and inserted on their own in the genome of these. In plant using a tumorinducing plasmid into plant and animal are created starting from retrovirus vectors.

This volition ensure the transfer of gene between a wide assortment of species and tin collect the virus gene host agency with the consequence that new pathogens.

The vector typically contain marker gene that antibiotic opposition tin be transferred to other agency eg pathogenic bacteria. This would accelerate the outgrowth of antibiotic opposition is already a major health problem.

The vectors are often designed to the defense mechanisms that degrade the invaded cells (destroy) foreign DNA (the invader)

And what of “ending hunger in the world” what’s up?

Soon you look you see that the universe isleastequally hungry than before. Maybe even more, because from that international law allows agricultural patents not only genes but specific varieties, farmers are forced to buy seeds every year because legally the buyer (the farmer) to buy a patented seed (all are) acquires the right to use it only once. Thus, the old practice of new seeds for producing seeds became illegal. This has resulted in a real commercial battle between multinational seed: first was the hybridization technique by which ensured that crop seeds from the fruit of a previous hybrid crop will not come out ahead, forcing farmers to buy seed each year . As various crops resisted this technique in 1998 developed the so-called “terminator technology” by genetic modification that would impede seed germination and can be applied to a wide range of crops. Thus, the multi assure control seed industry. All of which HA gone to these company infinitely richer in just 10 years.

Are you able to feed biotechnology world population?

It is very doubtful. Currently, the vast economic resources of the multinational seed companies focus on a limited number of crops that have ready market in developed countries. Transgenic plants resistant to herbicides are useless for subsistence agriculture in underdeveloped countries where they can not afford the cost of the product and perform a manual farming. And not diverting money to investigate these environment ltiles technique is precisely because they do not create market.

In addition a biological barrier the type of crop to be most useful in this type of agriculture tend to be very composite involving the handling of more than one cistron which Energy not seem to be available time of Biotechnology Current.

Genetic use applied to agribusiness is an option whose necessity arises from economic interest not social issues. Not sufficiently investigated the consequences in the medium and long term and much less controlled. Not to mention it HA yet to demonstrate that it HA improved more than the wealthiness of those who make them.

As if all this were not sufficiency genetic engineering applied to agribusiness is suspected of causing toxic effects and allergic reaction in consumer and increase the incidence of disease related to the use of chemical in agricultural worker in addition to causing mayhem on our environment.

Eating nutrient from organic agriculture is today the best guarantee you tin have that you eat healthy food not processed and high biotic power.

What count is your health. And thats the point.

Although many gram crop which are grown in significant measure are soy maize cotton and canola.

The briny manufacturer of GMOs are America Canada Argentina Australia and Mexico.

gram merchandise should indicate that they are on the label. They can use the word “modified” to do so, adjective also used when the change is chemical. So when you find an ingredient expressed as “soybean (corn starch, and so on. ) Modified could be a gram or a chemical manipulation.

Transgenic merchandise of Greenpeace. List manufacturers and brands of products containing GMOs. green and red.

Cover Page section of Greenpeace gram for updated info run beingness carried out and the situation of GMOs in Espana and worldwide.

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