in his article "bad for the poor and bad for science : genetically modified crops will not help the developing world", colin tudge makes much of the reasons why genetically modified crops are a waste of time, money and all other resources for the world's poor.



he fails to go into why the u.k. government appears to be ready to allow them to be grown in britain - that their corporate "sponsors" (read "owners") have paid "new" labour for the privilege of:

• undermining the entire organic farming industry, for cross-breeding will remove the whole concept of "organic";


• possibly endangering public health with unknown, long-term ill-effects of the use of these crops;


• removing choice from all of us in what we eat - g.m. crops will cross-breed with "normal" crops and wil, eventually, if they are truly as disease-resistant as we are told, replace them for the "normal" crops will become unviable in the face of what can only be thought of as parasites - end of choice;


• placing a patented organism into the wild, allowing it to replace "real" organisms, thus allowing the patent holders to charge a licence fee to all those who grow from them, even those unwittingly growing from "infected" seed.

all of this leads to one place: a world with no choice between organic, normal or g.m. foodstuffs, with no "real", "natural" food left, with massive corporations being allowed to charge through the nose for products which we don't want but can't avoid.



it fucking stinks.



bliar and all his cabinet members are absolute cunts. they must be removed from power as soon as possible. i suggest a massive campaign to drum up support for the greens at all costs, in order to rid ourselves of the money-grubbing, evil, lying, corrupt, corrupting bastards in downing street and its environs at the next general election.