[Pil-pc-oceania] [Fwd: GM - Examine the facts]

[Kerry Dawborn]

Hi Friends,

another letter to The Age on GM which might be of interest...

cheers,

Kerry

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Subject: 	GM - Examine the facts
Date: 	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:04:54 +1100
From: 	Kerry Dawborn <kjdawborn at bigpond.com>
To: 	letters at theage.com.au



Paul Henry's reasoning on GM crops (Letters, 20/12) beggars belief. He 
argues that the sudden death syndrome attributed to the use of Round Up, 
is an argument in favour of banning Round Up, not Round Up resistant 
crops. That reduced yields with GM seed are an argument to farmers not 
to buy GM seed, not ban GM, that patent violations resulting from 
cross-contamination with neighbouring crops is a legal problem, not a GM 
problem.
Mr Henry, your first assertion is contradictory - the purpose of Round 
Up resistant crops is to allow its increased use, so why would it be 
banned? Reduced yields are a problem to everyone if GM affected crops 
are all that is available to farmers because cross-contamination of 
neighbouring non-GM crops. Frankly, compared with possible destruction 
or severe compromise to our food system, potential intellectual property 
rights legal issues for big agro-corporations resulting from 
cross-pollination, is not my priority.
I'm afraid your segmented thinking which demonstrates a very narrow 
cause-effect approach, ignoring the wider holistic picture, is 
symptomatic of the kind of simplistic approach that seems to 
characterise many of the arguments in favour of GM.

Kerry Dawborn
4 Birch Rd,
Wonga Park 3115
Victoria

ph (h) 03 9726 5866


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