Stop riding genetically modified Two-​Trick Pony!

Van­dana Shiva says plant many food plants rather than GM corn and soya

Stop rid­ing the two trick pony!

There are only two com­mer­cially grown genet­i­cally mod­i­fied food crops. Maize(corn) and Soya. Of these there are those that con­tain the Bt gene which con­stantly exudes a crys­tal toxin which kills insect lar­vae and a gene which makes the plan resis­tant to the com­pa­nies brand of her­bi­cide. The rise of insect resis­tance to Monsanto’s Bt Maize in South Afr­rica and Bt Cot­ton in India clearly sends out warn­ing sig­nals of eco­log­i­cal dis­as­ter which are fly­ing in the face of nature. Van­dan Shiva speak­ing to One World. Net 16 March 2010, said: Faced with grow­ing demand for food and increas­ingly unpre­dictable weather, many devel­op­ing nations are debat­ing whether to relax restric­tions on the use of genet­i­cally mod­i­fied crops. Plant­ing a broader vari­ety of crop strains-​rather than a cou­ple of GM varieties-​should help pro­tect the world food sup­ply and insure it against emerg­ing cli­mate threats, includ­ing an expand­ing range of crop pests. Plenty of drought-​and flood-​resistant tra­di­tional crop vari­eties already exist and sim­ply need to be brought back to mar­ket, sup­port­ers of tra­di­tional farm­ing say. Keep­ing small farm­ers on their land is also key, she said, because small farm­ers are more pro­duc­tive per acre than big-​scale grow­ers, accord­ing to the UN Food and Agri­cul­ture Organisation’s fig­ures. Read full story (http://www NULL.math­aba NULL.net/news/?x=623054 )

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