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Oct 23, 2010: America:-You most likely haven’t heard of it, but it’s here in a big way. I was not familiar with it until recently. It’s a type of food Europeans refused to purchase, but is widely used in the United States.I’m speaking of what are known as genetically modified organisms (GMO). Some of our major food sources have been genetically modified. They are corn, soy, cottonseed, canola, papaya, zucchini, sugar beets and crookneck squash. GMO food tastes exactly the same but there are questions about the lack of research and reports by farmers of animal deaths and infertility among many animals fed the crops. European countries are independently researching GMO foods, and thus far, their findings aren’t looking very positive. Read more...
Oct 23, 2010 :New Delhi:-Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s crusade against genetically modified or Bt food will get a political fillip as well. Parliament’s Standing Committee on Agriculture, currently studying the pros and cons of allowing Bt brinjals or other genetically modified foods, is likely to oppose these on various grounds.
Oct 23, 2010 : New Delhi:- A Greenpeace India delegation Tuesday met the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture and demanded a ban on Genetically Modified (GM) crops, saying that they were a threat to the country's agriculture, food safety and environment.
The wide scale adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton crops in China has led to an explosion of insect pests, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and published in the journal Science. "This is a massive issue in terms of the environment, but also in terms of costs for the farmer," said Kirtana Chandrasekaran from Friends of the Earth. "The plan with GM crops was to reduce costs and environmental impact, but neither of these things seem to be happening, because over time, nature takes its course, and that was bound to happen. The supposed benefits in yield can be cancelled out by unintended consequences like this."