Comments on: Africa at Crossroads http://www.biofortified.org/2009/12/africa-at-crossroads/ Stronger plants, stronger science, and stronger communication. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Karl Haro von Mogel http://www.biofortified.org/2009/12/africa-at-crossroads/#comment-1558 Karl Haro von Mogel Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:21:10 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=1090#comment-1558 Oh yeah, I let the author know about the blog and that I linked to their article. I'm partial to the GE parsley - it has quite an extra kick to it! Oh yeah, I let the author know about the blog and that I linked to their article.

I’m partial to the GE parsley – it has quite an extra kick to it!

]]> By: MaryM http://www.biofortified.org/2009/12/africa-at-crossroads/#comment-1557 MaryM Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:07:20 +0000 http://www.biofortified.org/?p=1090#comment-1557 Hmmm...the image over there says GM foods. Are there really GMO artichokes already? I wasn't aware of that.... You should invite the author over here to talk. I don't care if someone says "I will not eat GMO food" and wants to live that way. But I just think it's so unfair for some of those same folks to try to withhold the technology from others. And some of them want to ban anything they call "biotechnology" which is ridiculous. It would ban the techniques -- or even learning the techniques -- that might make many improvements in plants that are short of the cross-species barrier that they want to prevent. Seems to me that it is no accident that India and China are now at a technology and development inflection point that followed on from the Green Revolution (which anti-tech activists claim was a huge disaster). Hmmm…the image over there says GM foods. Are there really GMO artichokes already? I wasn’t aware of that….

You should invite the author over here to talk.

I don’t care if someone says “I will not eat GMO food” and wants to live that way. But I just think it’s so unfair for some of those same folks to try to withhold the technology from others. And some of them want to ban anything they call “biotechnology” which is ridiculous. It would ban the techniques — or even learning the techniques — that might make many improvements in plants that are short of the cross-species barrier that they want to prevent.

Seems to me that it is no accident that India and China are now at a technology and development inflection point that followed on from the Green Revolution (which anti-tech activists claim was a huge disaster).

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