Thursday, 16 June 2011 04:51 'U.K. authorities recently released a report entitled Global Food and Farming Futures which recommends that "new technologies" in agriculture not be excluded merely on ethical or moral grounds. But Britain's Chief Scientist took this language and perverted it into an endorsement for genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), despite the fact that a more credible report issued by the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Scientific and Technology for Development (IAASTD) expresses quite the opposite concerning biotechnology in agriculture. Read more: UK Chief Scientists Continue to Ignore Science by Promoting GMOs
Upon first release of the report, the U.K. mainstream media went wild, falsely reporting that it proved the need for GMOs to feed the world, and that planting "Frankencrops" is the only way for agriculture to survive in the long term. And Beddington made a series of ignorant and unscientific statements himself, suggesting that GMOs will solve the problems of water shortages and salination, and that they are the "key to human survival".'
Thursday, 16 June 2011
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