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What do you think of this?

Post: # 271330Post Green Aura »

http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/01/21/ ... rs-spread/

Quite scary but not wholly unexpected methinks.
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Post: # 271334Post GeorgeSalt »

Green Aura wrote:http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/01/21/ ... rs-spread/

Quite scary but not wholly unexpected methinks.
Looks on the surface like a good article (lots of references, well written), but it's a summary of what's not known. I can see nothing in the article that says that there is a known or proven issue for human/animal health - but lots of potential or might bes that need further research.
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Post: # 271337Post oldjerry »

Don't know diddly about the science,but given the name of the website,I'm all for it!!

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Our life in their hands............

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Post: # 271349Post The Riff-Raff Element »

I'm astounded that the EFSA didn't require the companies wishing to sell GMOs in Europe to make full disclosure about what had been inserted where - why did it take research to discover this? I suspect that the risks to human & plant health are probably very small, but the fact that the regulators themselves are not in the know is a scandal.

Biochemistry is a young science: a great deal is understood, but it is pretty clear that a great deal more than this remains to be discovered. Mucking around with stuff that not properly understood is usually a recipe for disaster.

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