More GM crop destruction

[DanishDynamite]

CurtC:

DanishDynamite, Richard R said that everything he saw by Googling indicated that Starlink is not harmful for humans and you disagreed.

No, I didn't disagree. I simply asked if it had been approved for human consumption.

Yet even reading the link you just provided, it looks like Starlink is probably not allergenic, based on the tests that Aventis did. Do you have data indicating otherwise?

No, I have no such data.

My point, as stated previously, was that a GM version of a basic foodstuff, specifically not approved for our consumption, nevertheless made its way into many food products.

And we're not saying that you shouldn't question the safety of what you eat, but that the safety of GM is at least as good as crops modified by more old-fashioned means.

Perhaps it is. I'm just wary as food is such a fundamental neccesity.

 

[Beausoleil]

Like I said, how do you know it's the majority that doesn't want them? I think they do want them and aren't scared of them. It's those loud paranoid few teaching the public like 5yos and saying they need protection from something they actually want.

Then you're wrong. Hard headed supermarkets make a big deal out of flagging that their products contain no GM ingredients precisely because they couldn't sell them until they did.

You can argue with polls, but when Britain's biggest supermarkets get rid of GM containing products because they can't sell them, you've got to concede that avoiding GM may be cranky but it's not a minority.

 

[RichardR]

RichardR:Let me ask you again: Is it now approved for human consumption?

No – not as far as I can tell.

And I take your point that if it is not approved for human consumption it should not have found its way into the human food chain.

 

[Jon_in_london]

Then you're wrong. Hard headed supermarkets make a big deal out of flagging that their products contain no GM ingredients precisely because they couldn't sell them until they did.

You can argue with polls, but when Britain's biggest supermarkets get rid of GM containing products because they can't sell them, you've got to concede that avoiding GM may be cranky but it's not a minority.

I dont know where you get that from....
GM products were flying off the shelves until the supermarkets pulled them...

 

[Shane Costello]

Here's a relevant article on patenting and biotechnology/GM technology.