martes, 26 de diciembre de 2006

GM food is answer to poverty and hunger

PEOPLE ARE being urged by Scotland's new chief scientific adviser to embrace genetically modified (GM) food as an answer to poverty, hunger and toxic pollution.

Professor Anne Glover, herself a genetic engineer, is urging consumers to ignore labels like "Frankenstein foods" because they are misleading and damaging. The potential benefits of GM crops are "huge", she says, and the risks "extremely small".

But her enthusiasm for GM food has infuriated environmentalists, who fear she could exert an important influence on Scottish ministers. They argue GM crops are "potentially dangerous" and point out that they have been widely rejected by the public and supermarkets.

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1 comentario:

Anónimo dijo...

There's already more than enough food to feed everyone in the world. The problem is distribution. It isn't distrbuted to the 16,000 children who die from hunger every day.

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Scott Hughes
Hunger & Poverty Blog