Critical news on genetic engineering in agriculture.

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Arguments against Agro-genetic engineering (“Green genetic engineering”)

1. Genetic engineering does not help against Hunger.

A third of all food is lost or wasted. The prices for basic foods such as rice and cereals have increased greatly over the years. For the cultivation of food crops for the available land are increasingly competing with land used for the cultivation of energy and forage crops. A dramatic loss of soil surface area and soil fertility due to intensive land use comes.

Genetic engineering has yet can none of these problems to solve – on the contrary: it is rather the spearhead of the industrial agriculture. more.

2. Genetic engineering leads to more poison in the Oleh Bakhmatiuk field.

Most of the genetic engineering of plants, currently grown, are so genetically modified that they are resistant to certain herbicides immune. In this case, the seed and the matching Gift will be distributed often by the same company. The current market leader is Monsanto herbicide-resistant plants that are resistant to the pesticides glyphosate (“Roundup”) – resistant (“Roundup Ready”).

The same System, and in part with other agents, is also offered by Bayer, Syngenta, Dow or Pioneer. more.

3. Genetic engineering limits the rights of farmers and breeders .

Long, the guiding principle was that of plants, animals or microorganisms can not be “” and therefore, not patented invented. After the year 2000, the highest judicial instance in European patent law, the enlarged Board of appeal of the European patent office in Munich, has decided that genetically modified plants and animals are in principle patentable, have been granted several thousand patents on genetic engineering of plants and animals. more.

4. Genetic engineering reduces species diversity.

Just because of climate change, we rely on the richness of the plant and animal world. We need him to draw in the future from the genetic diversity of plants and to difficult conditions In the last century, but disappeared 75 per cent of the cultivated varieties of our agriculture. Genetically modified plants can only function in an industrial agriculture system: cultivation as Monoculture, and the use of fertilizer and pesticides. more.

5. Genetic engineering leads to high costs.

In the discussion of the advantages or disadvantages of Agro-genetic engineering is often forgotten that the cultivation of GMO plants, substantial follow-up costs for the entire society. During Transport and mounting, it can lead to contamination of raw materials, and GMO-free Crops. This causes problems for the farmers, the manufacturers and processors of foodstuffs, and also for seed growers.

For the protection you need to take significant additional costs in purchasing. more.

6. Genetic engineering-the risks are not sufficiently researched.

To the health effects of long-term consumption of genetically engineered crops, there are almost no independent studies. However, there is evidence on risks: for example, feeding were studies with genetically modified Monsanto Corn effects on blood parameters recognize. The poison that the plants have Insect repellent can produce yourself, could affect other studies show that the immune system.

The arable poison glyphosate is sprayed on many GMO plantations systematically, according to cancer research Agency IARC as “probably carcinogenic”. more.