The GM ‘Dirty Dozen’: 12 reasons to not research, cultivate or consume genetically modified crops 1. GM has yet to demonstrate its potential to alleviate poverty [1], while non-GM farming practices have [2] 2. GM and intensive, conventional agriculture crops do not consistently provide either improved yields, or reduced agricultural (including energy) inputs [1, 3, 4] 3. Nearly all major developments in improving yields, drought resistance, insect or pathogen resistance, even in recent years, have been the result of non-GM plant breeding techniques [1, 5] 4. There are no benefits that have yet to be attributed to commercial GM crops that have not already been attributed to non-GM crops (e.g. insect or herbicide resistance, drought or heat tolerance, nutritional enhancement) [5] 5. GM crops may pose serious, unexpected and unpredictable long-term risks to human health and the environment [6, 7] 6. GM threatens the biodiversity and the viability of wild plant and animal species [7] 7. GM crops may generate ‘superweeds’ and ‘superpests’ [8, 9, 10, 11, 12] 8. GM places the control of the world’s staple crops in the hands of a few corporations [1] 9. GM threatens the viability of organic farming systems [13, 14, 15] 10. ‘Co-existence’ of GM and non-GM agriculture is untenable [14, 15, 16] 11.Safety assessments used for approving GM cultivation are inadequate [17, 18] 12.The public has demonstrated a consistent rejection of GM crop technology and consumes it usually only when it is unaware of its presence [19, 20, 21].
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:05:36 +0000
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