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Regarding the debate on transgenic crops in Colombia, I am currently surprised by the absolute unawareness of studies that recognise negative impacts, denying their existence, disqualifying other perspectives as ignorant and thick,...
even silencing alternative voices under the argument that they are not "scientific truths."
So here it is, contribution to the discussion.... Studies that recognise both benefits and negative impacts, also problems of implementation.
Thread https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220380601055510?needAccess=true&instName=University+of+Exeter
So here it is, contribution to the discussion.... Studies that recognise both benefits and negative impacts, also problems of implementation.
Thread https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220380601055510?needAccess=true&instName=University+of+Exeter
Argentina has more than half of its arable land planted with GM soybeans, how are they doing? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2020.1732933
Although mainly big industrial plantations and agribusiness are profiting from the current commercial GM crops, we still hear their promoters saying that these developments are made especially to improve peasantries and "the poor", why? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066150903498754
Another interesting debate coming with the "sterile myth" and irreproducibility of new generations of individuals with same characteristics and %germination (& it's illegal anyway), is the opposite case of gene drives: a technology made to induce mutations https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21683565.2019.1591566
This technology would not be applied to crops but to weeds, to make them more vulnerable. Their potential release in uncontrolled environments have the highest ethical implications. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1515#d1e306
Same as with the so-called terminator seeds (genetically induced infertility) a moratorium has been achieved so far by global NGOs. However, the developers are lobbying... particularly in countries they considered underdeveloped ("easy target") https://www.saveourseeds.org/en/
Other aspects that haven't been included so far in this thread are related with social/political/macroeconomics considerations. One of them is seed business and how big players use technology to discourage renewable agriculture, favoring big corporations https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/4/1266/htm
Guess who the winners are in the long run (Figure 6. Big Six cross-licensing agreements for transgenic traits)... To much for a technology for "the poor", don't you think?
