Tin pot ... my point is that at the moment there's a lot of public resistance to GM, but once it's been done for roses Pandora's Box will have been opened and any objections to GM for other plants will have no weight at all.
My fear is that this is a softening up exercise.
The research has all been done ... genome sequencing is quite straightforward nowadays ... no extra research has to be done to do it in another species of plant.
When GM roses appear in the garden centres ... then the agricultural seed producers will be producing GM wheat, barley, maize, oilseed rape, tomatoes ... etc etc etc
It'll be too late for objections.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's just asking for unscruplous money motivated horrors like Monsanto to get their hands on it and then none of us will be able to grow roses because they'll claim we've cross bred with their GM genes - look what's happend to farmers in Canada and the US and third world countries where their own crops have been sullied by flying pollen form GM maize and cereals.
Slippery slope! And no, I don't want a blue rose or a strawberry with a 6 week shelf life either.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Humans have become such a pest on earth, I personally feel it a matter of when, not if we will accept GM in a wide scale to feed mouths. Rising co2 / temp only adds to this ..... on the flip side bacon flavoured potatoes sounds pretty good 😄
I am pro GM crops, I believe it is the only way we will be able to feed the world. Do you want neonicotinoid sprayed crops, or crops with inbred resistance?
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I agree that is is always enough food to feed the world. That was never the problem. And data is always great. As sequencing becomes easier we learn so much.
I don't want glyphosate resistant crops because experience shows that leads to higher concentrations of the stuff being used to grow and there are also hot spots of strange cancers and birth defects in those areas.
Food shortages exist in countries and continents where either or all of corruption, civil war, poor road communications, poor harvesting techniques, inadequate storage facilities and so on are rife. It's political and social failings, not a lack of food production, that are the problem.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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My fear is that this is a softening up exercise.
The research has all been done ... genome sequencing is quite straightforward nowadays ... no extra research has to be done to do it in another species of plant.
When GM roses appear in the garden centres ... then the agricultural seed producers will be producing GM wheat, barley, maize, oilseed rape, tomatoes ... etc etc etc
It'll be too late for objections.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Slippery slope! And no, I don't want a blue rose or a strawberry with a 6 week shelf life either.
Do you want neonicotinoid sprayed crops, or crops with inbred resistance?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We have enough food to feed the world, and yet people are starving.
The problem is distribution.
Either way this is still just a study on roses, no matter how much people want it to be confirming their worldview.
Food shortages exist in countries and continents where either or all of corruption, civil war, poor road communications, poor harvesting techniques, inadequate storage facilities and so on are rife. It's political and social failings, not a lack of food production, that are the problem.