Tag: ethics
Greenpeace destroys GM wheat trial in Australia
Greenpeace recently enlisted Vandana Shiva to protest on their behalf about GM wheat trials underway in Australia. Vandana Shiva endorses criminal arson as direct action against scientific laboratories she disproves (explicit video interview). Now Greenpeace — by their own self-acknowledged vandalism — are following Vandana Shiva (Sydney Peace [sic] Prize recipient) into the cesspool of criminality….
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TechNyou carry great story about GM wheat: the story of our daily bread |
GM wheat: the story of our daily bread | TechNyouBY JASON MAJOR TECHNYOU (reproduced here by kind permission of TechNyou) Australian consumers will soon be eating GM bread that has never been proven safe, according to Greenpeace. Greenpeace have lately been rattling the can about CSIRO’s proposed trials of GM wheat that have altered starch…
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The EFSA is doing traceback of E. coli contaminated fenugreek seeds imported into the EU. Preston and Tribe do traceback with plagiarised junk science.
The European food safety authority is currently tracing the sources and distribution of allegedly deadly E. coli contaminated fenugreek seeds originating in Egypt which have been implicated in several different outbreaks of severe pathogenic E. coli infections occurring these last weeks in Germany, France, and Sweden (see several other recent GMO Pundit Posts). To quote from the…
Deadly Choices — Junk science costs lives
Most of the time scientists can rely on publications that go through the careful critical review by other scientists. But sometimes papers get rushed through to publication, and there can be hasty, even harmful decisions made by journal editors. On the hopefully rare occasions were seriously flawed scientific studies have been got through the critical…
Real leadership leaves Friends of the Earth. Unfortunately, they still need it.
Finally, accept certain campaigns are not winnable, and simply drain resources. Absolutist positions do not hold up for the majority. Because of climate change, this probably includes total opposition to nuclear power and GM products globally. Focus instead on the conditions where these technologies become acceptable: safe, economic, free of patent control by a few…
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